Re: Daily Brief

Robert Harley (harley@cahors.inria.fr)
Thu, 29 Aug 1996 11:17:52 +0200


> * Israel announced yesterday that it has approved the building of
> a Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Quite aside from the political implications etc., how insane does one
have to be to want to live in those settlements? Maybe Beirut and
Belfast are getting too quiet these days for people who want to live on
the edge. There's always East Palo Alto... ;)

> * USA Today reports that a picture taken by Linda Kabot [...]
> - the photo apparently shows a cylindrical object, with one
> end aglow, streaking across the sky.

I doubt that a photo of a missile a mile or two away could show such detail.
And how exactly do you tell it was "streaking" from a still picture?

> * President Clinton yesterday proposed a $2.75 trillion children's
> literacy campaign, [...]

I propose a $2.75 numeracy campaign for whoever wrote this.

Bye,
the second angriest kid in the world.

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