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How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

How would you find out if a machine's stack grows up or down in memory?

If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands?

In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?

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1. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

2. You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?

3. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?

4. How would you find out if a machine's stack grows up or down in memory?

5. Explain a database in three sentences to your eight-year-old nephew.

6. How many times a day does a clock�s hands overlap?

7. You have to get from point A to point B. You don't know if you can get there. What would you do?

8. Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. It's very hard to find a shirt. So what can you do to organize your shirts for easy retrieval?

9. Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day, the queen of the village visits and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful. What happens?

10. In a country in which people only want boys, every family continues to have children until they have a boy. if they have a girl, they have another child. if they have a boy, they stop. what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country?

11. If the probability of observing a car in 30 minutes on a highway is 0.95, what is the probability of observing a car in 10 minutes (assuming constant default probability)?

12. If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? (The answer to this is not zero!)

13. Four people need to cross a rickety rope bridge to get back to their camp at night. Unfortunately, they only have one flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen minutes. The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and it�s only strong enough to support two people at any given time. Each of the campers walks at a different speed. One can cross the bridge in 1 minute, another in 2 minutes, the third in 5 minutes, and the slow poke takes 10 minutes to cross. How do the campers make it across in 17 minutes?

14. You are at a party with a friend and 10 people are present including you and the friend. your friend makes you a wager that for every person you find that has the same birthday as you, you get $1; for every person he finds that does not have the same birthday as you, he gets $2. would you accept the wager?

15. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?

16. You have eight balls all of the same size. 7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?

17. You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold in order to maximize his share but live to enjoy it? (Hint: One pirate ends up with 98 percent of the gold.)

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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease and Memory Loss in Later Life

The Evolution of Home Ownership rates

Forty three percent of households aged 20-34 already own a house up from 37 percent ten years ago. Sixty nine percent of American households own a home. With subprime loans no longer available and tighter lending controls it appears that the over hang of homes could last for a decade.

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Internet users cut back on sex and friends

clipped from www.google.com Yet a Web survey was the basis for articles by Reuters, the New York Post and InformationWeek claiming that 28% of Americans have let the Internet cut into time they spend with friends and 20% have cut back on sex to spend more time online. Just 20% of respondents said they could go without Web access for a week or more.

Indiana Jones 4 Plot Revealed Here

Don't look if you don't want to know.

clipped from www.nypost.com * Indy, played once again by Harrison Ford, and the Soviet army are both searching for a priceless skull made of crystal in the jungles of South America. * The Russians take Indy hostage and then blackmail him by threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and mother of his son, Marion Ravenwood, portrayed by Karen Allen. Cast as the son is Shia LaBeouf. * Cate Blanchett plays an evil Russian who grills Indy. "I saw Harrison Ford strapped to a chair and being interrogated," Nelson told the paper.

Indiana Jones Photo's

clipped from news.aol.com Photo Gallery: Jonesing for Discretion Paramount Pictures A man cast as a Russian dancer in Harrison Ford's fourth 'Indiana Jones' movie has revealed possible plot details to his hometown newspaper, angering director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas.     1 of 4

Dive Tectonic Plates in Reykjavik

clipped from information.travel.aol.com Location: Reykjavik, Iceland Cost: About $2,000 per person, including hotel and airfare from Heathrow Airport Tour: Explore underwater landscape between two tectonic plates in Iceland's crystal clear waters on a three-day diving expedition with London-based travel firm Black Tomato. More Adrenaline Adventures Up Next: James Bond Bungee

James Bond Bungee Jump

Wow, you need some courage to try this. Think Golden Eye.

clipped from information.travel.aol.com The James Bond Bungee Location: Lake Locarno, Switzerland Cost: About $1,200 per person, including hotel and airfare from Heathrow Airport Tour: Fans of 007 will recognize the Verzasca Dam from 'GoldenEye,' where James Bond bungee jumped a staggering 720 feet. To follow in the agent's footsteps, head to the Swiss and Italian border around Lake Locarno and take the same leap of faith -- a tuxedo and wristwatch with remote detonator are optional. More Adrenaline Adventures Up Next: Shark Diving Travel Guide for Switzerland Travel Guide for Italy Fly to Zurich, Switzerland!

Buy a laptop for a child, get another laptop free

clipped from www.iht.com And he is reaching out to the public to try to give the laptop campaign a boost. The marketing program, to be announced Monday, is called "Give 1 Get 1," in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399. One of the machines will be given to a child in a developing nation, and the other one will be shipped to the purchaser by Christmas. The donated computer is a tax-deductible charitable contribution. The program will run for two weeks, with orders accepted from Nov. 12 to Nov. 26. The machines have high-resolution screens, cameras and peer-to-peer technology so the laptops can communicate wirelessly with one another. The machine runs on free, open source software. "Everything in the machine is open to the hacker, so people can poke at it, change it and make it their own," said Bender, a computer researcher. "Part of what we're doing here is broadening the community of users, broadening the base of ideas and contributions, and that will be tremendously valuable."

Travel? You are being Monitored by DHS

clipped from www.washingtonpost.com U.S. Effort More Extensive Than Previously Known The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining data on the persons with whom they travel or plan to stay, the personal items they carry during their journeys, and even the books that travelers have carried, according to documents obtained by a group of civil liberties advocates and statements by government officials. The Automated Targeting System has been used to screen passengers since the mid-1990s, but the collection of data for it has been greatly expanded and automated since 2002, according to former DHS officials.

Bush thinks Clinton will Win

What do you think?

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com The pundit-in-chief says Sen. Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination but go on to lose the 2008 presidential election to the Republican candidate. "She's got a national presence and this is becoming a national primary," President Bush is quoted as saying in a new book by Bill Sammon of The (Washington) Examiner. "And therefore the person with the national presence, who has got the ability to raise enough money to sustain an effort in a multiplicity of sites, has got a good chance to be nominated." Sammon's new book, The Evangelical President, comes out today. There's an excerpt in this morning's edition of the Examiner. "I think our candidate can beat her, but it's going to be a tough race," Bush tells the author. "I will work to see to it that a Republican wins and therefore don't accept the premise that a Democrat will win. I truly think the Republicans will hold the White House."

"TASER THIS [EXPLETIVE] BUSH"

Comment?

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com A four-word editorial that appeared Friday in the Rocky Mountain Collegian, a student newspaper at Colorado State University, is generating lots of buzz in the blogosphere. We can't print the sentence in its entirety. Here's the sanitized version: "TASER THIS [EXPLETIVE] BUSH." (Click here or here for the unsanitized views of the paper's editorial board. Click here for footage of a Florida student being stunned by police.) The paper acknowledges that the editorial was "immature, unnecessary and offensive," but says this piece "accomplished more than any other staff editorial we've written this year."   Read more...

The Republicans might want to use this issue to distract voters from the real issues confronting us in 2008.

clipped from news.aol.com Seniors Balk at Ban on Free Doughnuts MAHOPAC, N.Y (Sept. 23) - It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool - and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts. Senior citizens in Mahopac, N.Y., on Sept. 13 protest the county's decision to stop serving free doughnuts, pies and breads at senior centers.

Obama unveils new tax plan

For or against?

clipped from iowaparent.com Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama rolled out an $80 billion tax relief plan for workers and seniors Saturday and pledged to shorten the time needed to file returns to less than five minutes. <BR><BR>About 300,000 Iowa seniors would never again need to file tax returns under the plan, and 100,000 of those would save roughly $1,400 each year, Obama said as he campaigned through Iowa. Nationally, 22 million elderly Americans who make less than $50,000 per year would no longer need to file.<BR><BR>"The American dream shouldn't be just the property of the few," the Illinois senator told an audience of 200 at Clarke Community School in Osceola. "It shouldn't just be for those who have a lobbyist in Washington."<BR>

Smokers and non-smokers agree: Bans are okay in public places

clipped from www.synovate.com Smokers and non-smokers agree: Bans are okay in public places Smokers also willing to pay price for tobacco-friendly flights As smoking bans continue to make headlines in Germany, Australia and the UK, findings from international market research firm Synovate's latest survey show that 80% of respondents in 15 countries across the globe are in favour of such bans, primarily because of the positive influence these are perceived to have upon public health. Smoking bans win global support More than 70% of people believe that smoking in public is fine as long as there is adequate ventilation or designated smoking spaces, according to the Synovate study. Read more

Kids’ Insurance Divides Republicans

You bet your sweet bippy.

clipped from www.google.com The inside-the-Beltway-gang is engaging in some serious brinkmanship over the State Children’s Health Insurance Program this week, and it’s dividing Republicans, in particular. The current program, which helps provide health insurance to some 6.6 million kids, is set to expire on Sept. 30, and Congress is about to send a bill to President Bush to renew and extend it. But Bush held a press conference yesterday (transcript is here) and said he wouldn’t sign the bill — no huge surprise, given that he’s promised all along to veto Congress’ expansion plan, arguing that it would unwisely expand the government’s role in health care. And when the Post asked Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), if he’d vote to override a presidential veto of the bill, he quipped, “You bet your <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_&_Martin's_Laugh-In#Memorable_moments_and_catchphrases" target=_blank closure_hashCode_="531">sweet bippy</A> I will.”

Rudy Giuliani says he's 'one of four or five best known Americans'

I wonder if he believes what he says, or is just doing that think, if i say it often enough others will start to believe its true. Facts below.

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com No offense to hizzoner, but we don't see his name on the list of People's Top 25 celebrities. The same goes for Google Trends. That site, which tracks the most popular search terms, lists Al Sharpton, a longtime nemesis of the mayor, but doesn't include Rudy. Other names that did make the cut: Oscar de la Hoya, Hayden Porter, Jennifer Aniston and "oj s girlfriend." Here's how searches for "Rudy Giuliani" (blue) compare with searches for "Bill Clinton" (red) and "Hillary Clinton (yellow), according to Google:

Milwaukee Nun, 79, Charged With Having Sexual Contact With Two Boys

Mama mia.

clipped from www.foxnews.com MILWAUKEE —  A bench warrant has been issued for a 79-year-old nun charged with inappropriate behavior after she failed to appear at a hearing. Norma Giannini is charged with two counts of indecent behavior with a child stemming from incidents involving boys at a school where she had been principal. Click here for more on this story at MyFoxMilwaukee.com. Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Paul Tiffin said Monday the warrant was issued after Giannini failed to appear at a hearing Friday. She was charged last December and accused of having repeated sexual contact during the 1960s with some students who attended St. Patrick's School in Milwaukee. Sheila King, with the Chicago region of the Sisters of Mercy, said Giannini hadn't realized she was required to attend the hearing last week.

Europeans Try Out Mars 'Pregnancy Test'

This is no joke. Go read it and see.

clipped from www.foxnews.com A new experiment similar to a pregnancy test but designed to search for signs of life on Mars is now exposed to the vacuum of space above Earth. The European Space Agency's (ESA) postage-stamp-sized experiment, called the "Life Marker Chip" (LMC), was launched last week aboard a Russian rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Strapped to the ESA's large Foton-M3 capsule, the tiny experiment harbors more than 2,000 life-detecting samples that glow if they encounter life-critical compounds, such as proteins or DNA. Scientists and engineers hope the life-sensing chip can remain viable in the harsh radiation, temperatures and vacuum of space during a trip to Mars. "This will be the first time that these types of materials will have flown unprotected in space in a manner similar to a flight to Mars," said Andrew Steele, a molecular biologist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C.