Mensa members urged to use brains for national needs
Washington essayist Joseph Jastrow laments Mensa's idle meetings and calls for the high IQ group to launch a brain bank to address national issues. He notes diverse members, from track walkers to convicts, and suggests collaborations with Rotarians and others to apply intelligence to problems like sewage disposal and Cyprus governance.
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Buckley Christmas Eve tale of misadventure and law
William F Buckley Jr recounts a chaotic Christmas Eve filled with pistol permit hassles a Nassau schooner mishap a Suffolk court ruling and a hopeful New Year as he navigates bureaucracy finance and personal misfortune in 1974.
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Predictable Phrases and the Notion of the Foreseeable Future
The column argues that foreseeability depends on definitions in Webster's dictionary and cites examples showing future projections can be within forecast ranges. It notes word origins from Buncombe and Buncombe’s speech history and traces the term debunked to a list of humorous job-linked pairings.
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