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From: "Betty Brown" <>
Subject: Re: Speaking of telling time.......
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 18:38:00 PST

None of my children's friends understands what a "quarter to...." or a
"quarter after..." the hour means...they all grew up with digital clocks
and watches.....

.....the pre-med college student shrugged and
>informed the professor that he had never learned to read "one of those
>clocks"!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Bill
>

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