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Interesting article...

In 1981, 40 percent of the world's people lived on less than $1 a day, according to Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion of the World Bank. The figure plummeted to 21 percent by 2001 and may be as low 15 percent by 2015. We can hope.

On the radio this morning there was a program during which the announcers quizzed a caller with a number of puzzles. These are the ones I remember:

If you had six white pigs, five black pigs and seven gray pigs, how many pigs could say that they were they same color as another pig?

A man walks out in pouring rain without a hat or an umbrella and does not get a single hair wet, though his clothes are soaked. How did he do it?

A train is approaching a man walking on the tracks; before jumping off the tracks he runs straight at the train for ten feet. Why?

A woman drops her expensive diamond ring into some coffee and it doesn’t get wet. Why?

A pet store owner tells a customer, "This parrot repeats everything he hears.” The customer buys the parrot but it never says a single word. The store owner was not lying. How do you explain this?

The caller got every question right.
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