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Show ffopgucs I Jay Wamsley ClJCCkS Did you know: ...A $116 million investment in-vestment and ten years of work on a dam was halted in Tennessee when, as the project was in full swing, a school of three inch minnows were found nesting in the river? ...A lot of fuss was made when Amy Carter enrolled in a public school in Washington. Now little Miss Carter has transferred to a private school to "take advantage of her excellent reading ability." Where's all the fuss? ...That hundreds of people turned out to watch grown men and women fall in mud holes, ride tricycles blindfolded, blind-folded, and take spills into tubs of cold water in Parowan Monday? ...That scores of communities com-munities around the country did similarly strange things this past weekend? ...That there are very few countries in the world where there are purple mountains and amber waives of grain? ...That the drought in some parts of this state is so severe many farmers won't raise one bal .e of hay this year? Think about it--not enough rain or reservoir water to make the effort of cutting the hay crop. ...That many of the visitors to National Parks are elderly and handicapped and not able to hike into wilderness areas or to stray far from their cars.? ...That since January, 1973, one million babies have been killed each year, because on that day seven judges of the U.S. Supreme Court said there is a right to kill the unborn? These clinical slayings will soon exceed the total number of persons killed by Adolf Hitler. ...That there is a little girl, 30 months old, in Cleveland, Ohio, who can read, play chess, operate a pocket calculator and plays table tennis while standing on the table? It's true. She was first able to read words from newspaper ads at 15 months. She also enjoys billiards (while kneeling on the table.) ; ...That to me, kilograms, kilometers and centigrade is as confusing as cubits and shekels. So why rewrite the Bible using metric phrases? |