No. 310: "Insight Out"
"I'm saying we really do have to recognize that it's going to be difficult and take a while for people to get this stuff," says Professor Shoshanna Sofaer of Baruch College, an adviser to the federal government. "And for a significant percentage, they're never going to get it because they're cognitively impaired, they're too frail, or they just don't have the energy to invest in understanding these things." Who's never going to understand what?
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Thursday's Question (No. 309)--"Lost in Translation":
" 'EIN Nod: Bodlonrwydd Llwyr I Gwsmeriaid' is not the snappiest slogan to those who speak no Welsh. Yet the banner inside General Electric's aero-engine servicing department in South Wales--'_____________'--is a fair approximation of what GE has been up to in Nantgarw since it bought the business from British Airways in 1991."Fill in the blank in this lead from the Economist by translating that slogan from Welsh to English. (Question courtesy of Andrew Solovay.)
"A note: We apologize for Suddenly Susan."--Mac Thomason
"Working in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism under the party's tutelage to achieve the Four Modernizations."--David Lofquist (Shany Mor had a similar answer.)
"Kill All the Fish and Blame Somebody Else."--Dave Gaffen
"No scrubs: A scrub is a guy who can't get no love from me."--Dennis Cass
"Our Goal: A Low-Wage Workforce Without the Brown People."--Matthew Heimer
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