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* <section begin=title />[[The Traveler's Dilemma]]<section end=title /> | * <section begin=title />[[The Traveler's Dilemma]]<section end=title /> | ||
* <section begin=source />[http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=7750A576-E7F2-99DF-3824E0B1C2540D47 ''Scientific American'', May 20, 2007].<section end=source /> | * <section begin=source />[http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=7750A576-E7F2-99DF-3824E0B1C2540D47 ''Scientific American'', May 20, 2007].<section end=source /> | ||
* <section begin=abstract />Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that | * <section begin=abstract />Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about the value of these strange objects. Simply asking the travelers for the price is hopeless, he figures, for they will inflate it. | ||
each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about the value of these strange objects. Simply asking the travelers for the price is hopeless, he figures, for they will inflate it. | |||
Instead he devises a more complicated scheme...<section end=abstract /> | Instead he devises a more complicated scheme...<section end=abstract /> | ||
* <section begin=response-qty />1<section end=response-qty /> | * <section begin=response-qty />1<section end=response-qty /> | ||
* <section begin=response-list />{{response-ref|Response:2007-Basu.1}}<section end=response-list /> | * <section begin=response-list />{{response-ref|Response:2007-Basu.1}}<section end=response-list /> | ||
Revision as of 11:28, 30 May 2007
- Basu, Kaushik
- 2007
- Basu 2007
- The Traveler's Dilemma
- Scientific American, May 20, 2007.
- Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about the value of these strange objects. Simply asking the travelers for the price is hopeless, he figures, for they will inflate it.
Instead he devises a more complicated scheme...
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- {{#lst:Response:2007-Basu.1|ref}} {{#lst:Response:2007-Basu.1|formats}}