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as i watched john carpenter's classic "they live" last night, i thought about the sensory glasses each of us wear. instead of being crafted from plastic they are sculpted by life experience and brain chemistry.

we never remove them even as we dream.

whereas some people see a crash others recognize an impact.

if i asked ten million people to write a fifty-word description of white bread i could take a glimpse into the window of ten million similar yet unique perceptual constructs.

would you focus on the color, the shape, the texture, the aroma, the thickness, the dimensions or something fundamentally different?


do you remember a particular picture in one of your history books?

do you recall a professor telling an interesting anecdote?

do you recollect a news article buried on page 43?


of the following five statements, which one is false?

1. the first photographed president was john quincy adams.
2. gerald ford nominated supreme court justice john paul stevens.
3. president harry s truman never earned a college degree.
4. the 22nd amendment limits a president to serving two terms.
5. woodrow wilson appears on the face of the $100,000 bill.