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Kings on Bush Admin restructuring Science


From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:02:04 -0400


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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw () cs cmu edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:27:50 -0400
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Bush Admin restructuring Science Advisory


From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>

Next up, the administrations efforts to legislate pi to be something
easier
to remember and acceptable to the religious fundamentalists....


See 1 Kings 7:23

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from
rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure
around it.

and, presumably for emphasis?   see also 2 Chronicles 4:2

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from
rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure
around it.


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And

From: Bill Marcy <wmarcy () stny rr com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:10:19 -0400
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Bush Admin restructuring Science Advisory

And no one mentions that every administration does this?

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