Why Girls Can't Throw... and Other Questions You Always Wanted Answered
Mitchell Symons, . . HarperCollins, $12.95 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-06-083518-7
The structure of Symons's genial entry in the humorous trivia genre is simple, if hardly scientific: the author thinks of a question ("Would it kill someone if you dropped a coin off the top of a skyscraper and it hit them?") and then contacts an expert, who is usually annoyed by Symons's questions (he calls many authorities more than once), for the answer (in this case, no; the coin wouldn't be moving fast enough). More often than not, Symons (
Reviewed on: 12/05/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
Other - 192 pages - 978-0-06-186363-9