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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Truth in Advertising?
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 19:09:07 EST
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> What I've always wondered is why the closer to the equator people live, the
> darker their skin tends to be. It seems that in the interests of maintainting
> a reasonable body temperature, it should be just the opposite.
> 
> 	Wayne

And why is it that, although the surface of the Earth is convex, your shoes
curl upward, as if the ground were concave?