On 1 February 2010 Stephen Black wrote: >And while we're on the subject of winning, allow me >to slip in this modest observation on the recently-concluded >Winter Olympics. Canada, with one-tenth the population of the >USA and one-quarter the population of Russia, managed to >win more gold medals that both of those powerful countries >combined.
But what *proportion* of these countries is under snow half the year round? -:) I note that Stephen fails to mention that Britain won its first Winter Olympics individual gold medal for more than thirty years. Enough of this nationalism on TIPS. -:) And I also note that Stephen's nationalistic boasting directed attention away from the far more important item he cited: "A university professor who resigned in protest at the dumbing down of degrees was treated unfairly when exam students he failed were remarked to pass, the Court of Appeal has ruled." http://tinyurl.com/ykh7pw7 Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=991 or send a blank email to leave-991-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
