FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
Bill Guest hosted the Reach for the Top National Finals for much of the CBC era. He also co-hosted the late 1970s panel show Beyond Reason with Allen Spraggett. Reach for the Top is a Canadian game show in which high school students participate in trivia tournaments. ...
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Bill Guest's grandson, Will, was a contestant on Reach for the Top.
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CBC Archives -- There are a couple of video clips from Beyond Reason that you can view.
Guest said the main purpose of the proposal is to protect people from a bioterrorist using an animal facility to introduce a pathogen to the public.
Guest said that if an outsider were trying to infect the public, he would look at the feed, ventilation and water designs on privately-owned animal facilities.
Guest said he is being labeled the "No. 1 protector of puppy mills," which is not true.
Bill was my inspiration to go into religious life and become a priest at one time in my life.
Bill's obituary notes and he told me he'd had Bill over for dinner on Friday and was shocked to hear of his passing on Monday.
Bill came of course from an era which many of us can recall when Calif. was not so polarized and many old Democratic socialists were still holding office in both Alameda and Contra Costa, and where I grew up hearing both my liberal and conservative neighbors hashing things out over Dinner.
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