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"Consider first a fuzzy concept such as baseball star. Even within the set of people who we can agree are baseball stars, some provide better examples of this concept than others. At the time of this writing, for instance, Alex Rodriguez is a better example of a baseball star than is Derrick Jeter. Although baseball fans agree that both players are stars, Alex Rodriguez has hit more home runs, won more awards, set more records, endorsed more products on TV, received more media attention, and so on. This makes him a better example of a star than Derrick Jeter."

The above passage comes from my linguistics text book, of all things. Jeez, you'd think they'd be able to spell a guy's name correctly.

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I know it's late in the game and most of you will have already had your Thanksgiving dinners, but happy Thanksgiving! I hope it was as good as mine was.