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M4 Dispatches
Notes from the Maryland Mensa Monthly Meeting
by The Boreal Badger (a.k.a. Thomas Weinbaum
vonWaldenthal)
September's speaker, who addressed a good crowd at Catonsville's Stillwater Church on the 18th, was Dr. Stephen Pollock, MD, FACC,
the director of The Heart Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital
in Towson...About now I should disclose my own interest in
the subject: I also am a heart patient. Over six years ago,
while undergoing a pre-operation check-up for the removal of
a benign parotid tumor, my EKG (electrocardiogram) pointed
out with the word "ABNORMAL" at the top, in large red
capital letters.
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Good Wine Cheap (and good food
to go with it)
By John Grover
This month’s column is for the reader who has just gotten home from working all day and then has to face preparing dinner for a roomful of unappreciative twits (or appreciative ones if you are lucky). You know that those blank stares aimed toward you from the dining room are quietly saying, “How soon do we eat? How soon do we eat?”
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Marc My Words
by
Marc Lederman, American Mensa
Region 2 Vice-Chair
Attention teachers,
homeschooling parents and involved family members: The Mensa
Education & Research Foundation is sponsoring a series of
lesson plans for grades Kindergarten through 12. Designed to
challenge gifted children, these plans cover topics from the
alphabet to the periodic table of elements, from Fibonacci
numbers to the Seven Wonders of the World.
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