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Hugh Reilly - Super-heids are not super men



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POSSESSING critical faculties is a curse. Years ago, I sat in a cinema and watched Superman extinguish a blazing oil refinery by freezing a nearby lake with his ice-cold breath, lifting the newly created glacier and dropping it on the inferno.
Commonsense and basic chemistry tells one not to use water on an oil fire but, not unexpectedly, the unquestioning herd of popcorn-grazers in the front stalls chorused their approval. Burdened with a functioning brain, it bothered me that, faced with...



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  • Last Updated: 22 April 2008 6:52 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Teaching , Hugh Reilly
 
 

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