Date:  Wed, 14 Dec 1994 05:16:08 -0600

From:  "Timothy C. Frazer" <mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>

Subject: Re: Roundabouts and Squares



On Tue, 13 Dec 1994, Joan Livingston-Webber wrote:



> We have MANY roundabouts in this country, expecially

> in small towns in Illinois and Iowa--that's where I'm familiar

> with them anyway. Only we don't call them roundabouts, we call them

> squares. And in the center around which the one-way

> traffic flows is a courthouse.

> --

> Joan Livingston-Webber  webber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]unomaha.edu

> "What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other."

>                         -Clifford Geertz

>

Yes, but one difference--at least here in macomb--is that people don't

tear around them at freeway speeds.



Tim