• Quote of the Day
"A football is a prolate spheroid having cylindrical symmetry with tapered points,"
University of Nebraska physics professor Timothy Gay, who has produced a a program for NFL Films called "The Physics of Football. Quoted in the Wall Street Journal.

• Number of the Day: 20 billion
Disposable diapers dumped in American landfills each year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/national/10RECY.html

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