Jared Diamond's book. [Was: Native American Agriculture]

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From: Ian Staples
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 00:00

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Just changing the subject somewhat! :-)
In article <6uvmqa$2r0$1@denws02.mw.mediaone.net>, 
kiewicz@mw.mediaone.net (Pat Kiewicz) wrote:

>I've recently finished reading Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning
>book _Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies_ [...]

Ain't it amazing!  Reminds me of the time a few years ago when I first
heard of Burkino Faso, then it was in the newspapers every second day!

Now we have Diamond's book.  Similar chain of enlightenment. ;-)
Those of you who follow aus.legal as well as sci.agric may have
already seen my comments a couple of weeks ago.  For the rest of
you, what happened was:

A colleague from here was called up for jury duty.  After a boring
first week of turning up and being told "not required", it looked
like he would finally be empanelled as one of the twelve good men
and true (AKA "your peers" -- though I've yet to hear of a jury of
twelve derelicts being empanelled to pass judgement on a vagrant :).

Anyway, a mutual friend had lent this bloke Diamond's book to help
him while away the debilitatingly slow legal process each day.
On the day he looked liked actually getting a place on the squad,
he was about to swear on the Good Book when one of the sharp-eyed
legal eagles observed that he was carrying a book about *Guns*.
He was forthwith excused from further participation in the matter
at hand.

And now Pat brings up the same book here.  :-)

Cheers,  Ian S.

P.S. Followups to aus.books

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au

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From: ianst@refer.to.signature.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Jared Diamond's book.  [Was: Native American Agriculture]
Date: 1998/10/02
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