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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Roger Penrose's New Book (in HTML) 1.0
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In sci.* article <3a3nre$10a@galaxy.ucr.edu>, john baez <baez@guitar.ucr.edu> wrote:
> In article <3a1alj$q8t@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> margaret@opus.eng.temple.edu writes:
> >In article <3a0moj$9q4@galaxy.ucr.edu> baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez) writes:
> >>In article <3a0i9r$gor@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> margaret@opus.eng.temple.edu writes:
> 
> >>>                                 What she did was--with her hand one
> >>>foot above--raise dead E. coli bacteria in a Petri dish higher than
> >>>one could expect statistically.  
> 
> [discussion elided] 
> Just what I said: was she *levitating* the E coli or *resurrecting*
> them??  Your sentence is ambiguous.

Keep in mind that 'raise' and 'raze' are the only English words which
are simultaneously homonyms and antonyms.  Thus, it's possible that she
actually meant the woman was tearing down bacterial colonies with a tiny
psychic bulldozer.
					-- K.
					I call it "Krilldozer"

