Archive for December, 2004

Caution, Flammable

December 3, 2004
By LHP

FDA study finds perchlorate (rocket fuel) in nation’s milk, lettuce. I suggest that this rocket fuel diet is propelling the elevated rates of hyperactivity seen lately among the nation’s children. On the bright side, this development suggests that the era of cheap spaceflight, available to everyman, is within reach. So close, in fact, we...
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A for the Day

December 2, 2004
By LHP

I’m teaching figures of speech this week and I asked my students to finish some incomplete sentences to make metaphors. Unfinished sentence number one was “The moon is ….” The quiet student in the back wrote, “The moon is a mouse’s dream.” He got an A for the day.
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