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Date: Oct 25, 2005

not enough $$ for instruction

Date: Oct 25, 2005

A picture being worth a thousand words...

Date: Oct 25, 2005

Invictus wrote:

A picture being worth a thousand words...

Wonderful It would be even better if the chickens depicted there were eagles.

Date: Oct 25, 2005

It's sad that these small grants can really do so much to improve education. They really give faculty to gear up with new skills or new technology, or to purchase equipment or teaching aids. In anthropology, we are in dire need of fossil casts and equipment for teaching various labs in archaeology and physical anthropology.

Amy Young

Date: Oct 25, 2005

Take note, Hattiesburg American. Thames and his cronies are making THE STUDENTS suffer.

Date: Oct 25, 2005

Eagle...as requested. Sometimes the eagle gets the fox.

Date: Oct 25, 2005

Sly Fox wrote:

Eagle...as requested. Sometimes the eagle gets the fox.

Wonderful!

Date: Oct 26, 2005

Sly Fox wrote:

Sometimes the eagle gets the fox.

And, unfortunately for the current situation, sometimes "The Golden Eagles" get the turkey (or is that turkeys?) in the "big golden egg." Come to think of it, the whole "MIDAS" concept just begs for someone to remember the last half of that particular fable.

Date: Oct 26, 2005

already gone wrote:

the whole "MIDAS" concept just begs for someone to remember the last half of that particular fable.

Please remind us of how that story ended. Just a sentence or two will jog my memory.

Date: Oct 26, 2005

Tip of my Tongue wrote:

already gone wrote: the whole "MIDAS" concept just begs for someone to remember the last half of that particular fable. Please remind us of how that story ended. Just a sentence or two will jog my memory.

From Wikipedia:

Dionysus offered Midas his choice of whatever reward he wanted. Midas asked that whatever he might touch should be changed into gold . . . As soon as he got home, he ordered the servants to set a feast on the table. Then he found that his bread, meat and wine turned to gold and became inedible. He found that when he touched his daughter, she turned into a statue as well. This made him realize the bad choice he'd made."

Later on, he also gets donkey's ears, but that's another story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_Touch

Date: Oct 26, 2005

Seems that Wikipedia is correct. But be careful, as it is written by whoever wants to contribute, whether or not they are experts in the topic. My professional society's list serve once had a big converstaion about Wikis--and found them more interesting as a cultural phenomena than a source of reliable information. For example, the entry on one of my subject-specialties seems to be taken from a bad undergradate textbook.

Date: Oct 26, 2005

foot soldier wrote:

Seems that Wikipedia is correct. But be careful, as it is written by whoever wants to contribute, whether or not they are experts in the topic. My professional society's list serve once had a big converstaion about Wikis--and found them more interesting as a cultural phenomena than a source of reliable information. For example, the entry on one of my subject-specialties seems to be taken from a bad undergradate textbook.

Doubtless you're correct in many cases. It would seem, in fact, that the Wikipedia entry is a paraphrase of Bulfinch, who is hardly under copyright by now. See at http://www.bulfinch.org/fables/bull6.html.