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March 11, 2007
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Byline: Sid McKeen

COLUMN: WRY AND GINGER

Back when I was in school, sometime around the invention of the wheel, teachers made a big thing out of inventors and their inventions.

Except for Edison and a few others, I've long since forgotten most of them. They've become a kind of blur in my memory over the years. Did Eli Whitney invent the spinning jenny or the cotton gin? What is a spinning jenny anyway? And when did they decide to replace the cotton in gin with vermouth? See what I mean?

For some reason, we never got any instruction about things that really count in everyday life. So here are a few of my questions for today: Who ...

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