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"The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day."

Stephen Ambrose gently suggested that the ingenuity of the American soldier was a contributing factor in the Allied victory in WWII, pointing to the GI-engineered solutions to, say, Normandy's hedgerows as an example. That creative spirit is illustrated linguistically, too, as shown in the linked list of acronyms and expressions.

Sitting in Hong Kong harbor one afternoon, I watched container ship after container ship set sail across the Pacific, piled unbelievably high with cargo modules. I asked my host, "How can that be stable?"

Timewise, that is.

That's what Tommy and Stuart Mitchell think. They claim the 15<SUP>th</SUP> century chapel's ornately carved patterns and cubes contain a musical sequence, concealed "because knowledge of harmonics may have been seen as dangerous, even heretical, by 15th Century church authorities."

<I>Scientific American</I> tells you how to construct a quantum eraser at home&mdash;a devise that proves that actions in the present can change our basic interpretation of what happened in past events.

Judging from the response to last week's poll, <I>Stereophile</I> readers love headphones. Do you use dedicated headphone amplification?