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Letter: Letter

Published 16 February 2002

From Gene Mallory

Counting sheep may not be complex enough to occupy your brain, but I know
that I cannot count backwards from 100 to 0 while visualising the numbers
without falling asleep. This works every time and takes a lot less than 10
minutes. Often I cannot get past 70.

Van Nuys, California

Issue no. 2330 published 16 February 2002

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