Ben Yagoda

__heorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

designer can inject the most artistic flair. The word __mpersand_ didn__ come into being until the nineteenth century. At that time & was customarily taught as the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet and pronounced __nd._ When schoolchildren recited their ABCs, they concluded with the words __nd, per se [i.e., by itself ], __nd.__ This eventually became corrupted to __mpersand._ The symbol is a favorite of law and