[IP] Kings on Bush Admin restructuring Science

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:27:50 -0400
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Bush Admin restructuring Science Advisory


> From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger@ibd.com>
>
> Next up, the administrations efforts to legislate pi to be something
easier
> to remember and acceptable to the religious fundamentalists....
>

See 1 Kings 7:23

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from
rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure
around it.

and, presumably for emphasis?   see also 2 Chronicles 4:2

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from
rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure
around it.


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And

From: Bill Marcy <wmarcy@stny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:10:19 -0400
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Bush Admin restructuring Science Advisory

And no one mentions that every administration does this?

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