Textbook Quotes.

 
64(b) Find the chirping rate to be expected at 14.0 degrees Celsius. Compare the result with the rule that the Fahrenheit temperature equals 40 plus the number of cricket chirps in 15 seconds.

This is either evidence that strange things happen when scientist people have too much free time, or that it's far time America finds a new temperature unit. I haven't quite decided.

 
(The answer, in case anyone was wondering, is about 80 chirps - or 60 degrees F.)

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A French television journalist, freed after four days in captivity in Iraq, said he was repeatedly interrogated by captors who accused him of being an Israeli spy and made him prove his nationality by drawing a map of France.

I think I once had a nightmare like that, only I wasn't wearing any pants.

I had a scary high school geography teacher. It's unnerving to realize that now, when she shouts: "Quick! What's the capitol of Nova Scotia? This stuff could save your life one day!" at kids, she'll have an actual example to back it up.