THE ODDS OF BEING BUMPED FROM A FLIGHT
There will likely be fewer people flying over the Thanksgiving holidays compared to last year, but that doesn’t mean there will be plenty of room for everyone who wants to travel.
There will likely be fewer people flying over the Thanksgiving holidays compared to last year, but that doesn’t mean there will be plenty of room for everyone who wants to travel.
Parents often warn: “Brush your teeth or you’ll get a cavity; floss or you’ll lose a tooth.”
But here’s one thing your mother didn’t tell you: Clean those gums well, or you could end up with heart disease.
If members of homeless families were grouped by themselves into one city it would be the size of St. Petersburg, Florida, population 248,500. There would be offices and stores, hospitals and courts, schools and strip malls, but no homes.
Doctors plead us not to dig too deep. We say: “Bring out the cotton swabs!”
“All knowledge degenerates into probability.”
– David Hume A Treatise on Human Nature (1739-40), ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge (1888), book 1, part 4, section 1, 180.