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On the morning of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy phoned the Boulder police in a panic about a ransom note she says she found on a staircase leading to the kitchen.
This week's puzzle was submitted by Slate reader Greg Ransom, a devotee of Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek.
Police have taken five handwriting samples from Patsy Ramsey and compared them against the 2½ page ransom note, the complete contents of which have not been made public.
He knew we were selling arms to Iran--itself flatly illegal and spectacularly in conflict with the administration's public pronouncements--but, he claimed, he had no idea the deal involved paying ransom for hostages.
Delving into the past, Jeremy Jackson and colleagues (2001) combined local historic records with current estimates to detail the ecological impacts of overfishing, Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly (2001) drew attention to distortions of global catches, and Ransom Myers and Boris Worm (2003) highlighted the depletion of the majority of the largest ocean predators.