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That was the perplexed comment that greeted my first halting efforts to explain the Clinton scandal to my children, ages 6 and 9. I promptly began quoting the profundity to my friends and reflecting indignantly, along with the rest of America, on what a poor role model the overgrown youth in the White House is for our youth.
The following article makes no attempt to be a 20-minute Chem 101 crash course for the perplexed, but, it is hoped, should at least provide you with counter-ammunition the next time someone corners you at a party and starts dropping terms such as stoichiometry as the temperature of your beer rises slowly but inexorably from cellar to attic.
However, The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (1993), does offer comfort and guidance to the perplexed, proclaiming that Most proper nouns including most names ending in sibilants take 's as in Kansas's, Burns's poems, Marx's theories, Berlioz's opera, and Ross's lane.
How can one overlook the abruptly truncated laugh, for instance, that conveys a perplexed intellect?
Chatterbox is especially perplexed by Benetton's reluctance to investigate--even inquire about--the guilt or innocence of these death-row inmates.