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From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Left-handed in a Twisty World (was Re: I Apologise)
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> Speaking of right-handed desks:  the University of Maryland has a
> number of left-handed desks in some classrooms (notably the large
> Physics lecture hall), of which I approve.  There are, however,
> far too few of these available in general.  It seems that the
> administration thinks lefties make up about .5% of the population.

In high-school we had the opposite problem. I think maybe the lefties
appreciated the desks so much they didn't get broken as frequently, or
maybe they were all identical twins. There were a couple of classrooms
with 50% lefty desks, most notably in the music dept.
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	Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva
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