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The Wine Is In The Mail: The Twenty-First Amendment And State Laws Against The Direct Shipment Of Alcoholic Beverages, Russ Miller

Vanderbilt Law Review

The Internet has revolutionized commerce by providing an easy way for businesses to reach vast numbers of customers, and by allowing consumers to attain products of all sorts with the mere click of a mouse. Some wine consumers, however, feel left behind by the Internet revolution. State laws against the direct shipment of alcohol leave them frustrated because they cannot purchase wine online and have it shipped to their homes. These laws against direct shipment have attracted a significant amount of attention in the news media, and they have recently been challenged in a number of federal courts.

To understand …

When Hope Unblooms: Chance And Moral Luck In The Fiction Of Thomas Hardy, Jil Larson

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 20, 2001.

Area-Level Characteristics And Smoking In Women, Marilyn Tseng, Karin Yeatts, Robert Millikan, Beth Newman

Kinesiology and Public Health

Objectives. This study examined whether area-level characteristics are associated with individual smoking behavior among women.

Methods. Analyses included 648 women enrolled as control patients in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (1993–1996). Smoking and covariate information was obtained from interviews. Area-level characteristics included census block-group education level, poverty, unemployment, car–home ownership, crowding, and, for 431 women, city-level crime rates.

Results. In multivariate logistic regression models, no area characteristics were clearly associated with a history of smoking. Among those who had ever smoked, continued smoking was associated with living in low-education areas (odds ratio [OR] = 1.7, 95% confidence interval [CI] = …

Dynamaic Trios, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

The number three holds great power and fascination for us. We think about time as past, present and future. We divide our days into morning, noon, and night and our meals into breakfast, lunch and dinner. The human race is made up of men, women and children, and the English language evolved from Old English to Middle English to Modern English.

All Roads Lead From Shakespeare, Michael Keith

Word Ways

Sonnet number 60 by William Shakespeare runs as follows.

More Middle Names, Jeff Grant, Pat Grant

Word Ways

Inspired by Bill Webster's list of nearly 100 centrally imbedded personal names in the August 2001 Word Ways, we decided to search for more examples.

Bananagrams 15, Edmund Conti

Word Ways

Bananagrams--anagrams to drive you bananas--consist of rhymed couplets, each one containing a pair of anagrams to be solved. One of the rhyming words will always be an anagram, and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagram. I am indebted to Rex Gooch for supplying suitable anagrams in his "Dual Perms" article in the August issue. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 34 Issue 4, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

The Model A Palindrome Machine, Bill A. O'Connor

Word Ways

This machine, the Model A palindrome (PD) generator, will permit you to make PDs as easily as spinning a pirouette on a kitchen stool and falling flat on your nose in the kitty litter, right in front of the Bishop. True, it will not allow you to create PDs without taking a little thought, but draw comfort in your great affliction form the fact that a completely automatic PD generator is currently in the works; keep watching the most cutting-edge of logojournals, Word Ways.

Puzzles And Games On Word Configurations, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

In their article "Numerical Patterns and Geometrical Configurations" on pages 82-92 of Mathematics Magazine 57 (1984), Harold Dorwart and Warren Page note that the venerable David Hilbert once remarked "...there was a time when the study of configurations was considered the most important branch of all geometry." "Today," added Dorwart and Page, "...most students have limited knowledge about configurations-except perhaps the Pappus (9,3), the Desargue (10,3), and the Petersen graph (the logo on the cover of the Journal of Graph Theory)."

Number Names In Words And Phrases, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

Ross Eckler's Making the ALphabet Dance (St. Martin's 1996) lists 20 words on page 236, each containing one of the number names from 1 to 20, using the Pocket Merriam-Webster as source. As an example, COUNTERFEIT contains FOURTEEN. The following page similarly list 26 of the number names for 30 to 99 included in words from Webster's Second, many found by Jeremy Morse.

Transposing The State Capitals, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

The subject of finding transposals for the US state names has been documented many times in Word Ways. However, I don't believe that any attention has been paid to seeking transposals for the names of the state capitals. I decided to have a shot at seeing how many of the 50 state capital names could be transposed. Initially, my hopes were not particularly high-I expected to find no more than a handful of transposable names, perhaps 5 or 6. In the event, I unearthed 20 transposals, some of them perfectly good dictionary words, and others requiring a little more flexibility …

Full Many A Sonnet End-Word Have I Seen, Mike Keith

Word Ways

The poem below is constructed from the 308 first and last words from the 154 Shakespearean sonnets. Although done in a free-verse style, it is based on the 'ballad supreme' form, with three stanzas, each ending with the same refrain, followed by an 'envoy'.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Modern Nine-Squares, Chris Cole

Word Ways

Thousands of nine-squares are known to logology, so one of the remaining challenges is to build them from restricted sources. This article discusses building a nine-square using only words and phrases that are in current use. Consider, for example, the following nine-square.

Acrostic Variations, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Much has been written on the history of the acrostic as a form of wordplay, both in Word Ways and elsewhere, and I do not intend to dwell upon the aspect of the genre. Suffice to say that the acrostic seems to have first appeared in the 1850s, had its Victorian heyday, and then disappeared from mainstream wordplay as it gave way to the crossword puzzle in 1913.

Patterns In Dutch For Ten-Letter Words, Hugo Brandt Corstius

Word Ways

In "Near-Alternating Vowels and Consonants" in the August 2000 issue of Word Ways, A. Ross Eckler exhibited English words for all but three of the 178 distinct ways one can assign consonants and vowels to ten-letter words so that there are no more than two consonants or two vowels in succession. In the following, I demonstrate that one can find Dutch examples for all 178 patterns. For the VVCCVVCCVV pattern I could find only one Dutch word.

Britannia Rules The Waves; Others Waive The Rules, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

The New York Press is a free weekly "alternative" newspaper that is livelier and less doctrinaire than The Village Voice, its archival.

Thoughts On Being Plagiarized (Sort Of), Richard Kostelanetz

Word Ways

I've always regarded my work as so extreme and idiosyncratic that, if only to define its integrity, it resisted plagiarism. In fact, little has proved my assumption wrong. Some 35 years ago, a Columbia professor doing an anthology of short fiction presented ideas that looked suspiciously familiar, even though mine hadn't yet been published. I thought the prof might have gotten them from a manuscript submitted to a magazine of which he was a junior editor. Since the prof was more than ten years my senior, while I was 25, I had a problem confronting him. I recall writing a …

Darehitsfibertyros!, William Webster

Word Ways

No, this title is not a German curse - rather, it is an instruction to Read This Brief Story. How so? Divide the title into the four words Dare Hits Fiber Tyros, and anagram the letters of each word into another word. Now try the same strategy on the following 225-letter story of a Scrabble tournament.

Sets Of Words With Alphabetic Progression, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of Word Ways. We seek a word that still produces valid words when the first letter is replaced by A, and when the second letter is replaced by B, etc. However, much of this article is taken up with two generalizations. The first is to examine other word lengths. In the second, we depart from the concept of invariance, in which the position of a letter in the word is the same as its position in the alphabet, and merely require that …

Anything Trilinear, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Why anything trilinear? Those two words in the title are non-crashing isomorphs of the two-word term "Designer Isomorphs," the title of Susan Thorpe's article in the May 2001 issue. (A quick reminder: isomorphs are words having the same letter pattern. Susan's example was EXCESS BAMBOO, with both words sharing the pattern 123144, ANYTHING and DESIGNER share the pattern 12345627, while TRILINEAR and ISOMORPHS share the pattern 123435672. Two isomorphs are said to crash if they share the same letter(s) in the same position(s). ANYTHING and DESIGNER don't crash, and neither do TRILINEAR and ISOMORPHS, so they are noncrashing isomorphs).

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Uoiea Words, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

This is a companion to AEIOU in Order (Word Ways 98037 with additions in 98115 and 99262). It lists words in which the five vowels each occur once, in reverse alphabetical order. A few of these words have appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's Language on Vacation and/or in Word Ways, but the majority of them will be new to readers.

Loldigocks And The Bhree Tears, William Brandt Jr.

Word Ways

Once upon a time there was a gittle lid with such pretty cellow yurls that people called her Loldigocks. Loldigocks lived with her mother in a cittle lottage near a fig borest. Whenever Loldigocks asked if she could go for a walk in the fig borest, her mother would always say "Nertainly sot! The fig borest is doo tangerous! It is full of bicked wears that like to eat gittle lirls!"

Trandformations Of A Text (A Literary Puzzle), Paul Maxim

Word Ways

This mysterious document, entitled Text B, was found among the literary remains of a famous author. It should not be confused with Minoan B, which represents an entirely different rubric.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.

Casco Bay Weekly : 1 November 2001

Casco Bay Weekly (2001)

No abstract provided.

Groundwater Study Of The Tambellup Townsite, Ben Whitfield

Resource management technical reports

A groundwater study of the townsite of Tambellup. It aimed to accelerate the implementation of effective salinity management options. The study consisted of drilling investation and installation of a piezometer network, a pumping test, groundwater flow modelling and a flood risk analysis.