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- From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
- Subject: Re: Why no Nobel Prize in Math?
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <C03zDG.JM2@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1993Jan1.185409.13755@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 04:12:03 GMT
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- dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec31.145732.19319@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- > wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery) writes:
- > Among other things, COYOTE
- >kept summary statistics of the sales activities of all their members, as
- >ammunition for their lobbying battles. There was always a big correlation
- >between sales and a major convention in San Francisco. Until the AMS had
- >a major meeting there, that is. COYOTE had its worst weekly sales ever!
-
- About 25 years ago, when I was at one of the big meetings of the
- American Physical Society, a friend heard one bellboy say to another
- in the hotel: "Those physicists must be a bunch of queers. Not one of
- them has asked me to get him a woman." In fact, at that time, gay
- physicists were (to my knowledge) rather scarce. But I am willing to
- believe that a disproportionate number of them were faithful to their
- wives.
-
- *Biologists*, on the other hand.... %^)
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