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No. 311: "Dutch Treatment"

Tuesday, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands reopens one of Amsterdam's most popular tourist attractions after extensive renovations. What attraction?

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Monday's Question (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?

"Convicted drug dealers in Texas will never understand how their former best customer gets to run for president while they rot in a Fort Worth prison."--Brooke Saucier

"The average American; how he, too, can qualify for a $1.3 million mortgage."--Barbara Lippert

"Dogs are never going to understand quantum mechanics. It's sad, in a way. If they could, they'd know whether to bother with Schrodinger's cat or not."--Steven Davis

"Jedediah Purdy; why people giggle when they hear the name Jedediah. Especially in combination with Purdy."--Daniel Radosh (Steve Roche had a similar answer.)

"Frankly, I think that even if you missed the pilot of The West Wing, it should be pretty easy to catch on."--Tim Carvell

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