By the Numbers

by Mary Anne Donovan

Literacy: "an individual's ability to read, write and speak in English and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential." 

This is the definition of literacy proffered by the US Congress when it passed the U.S. Literacy Act of 1991.

We WOLers have the writing and reading part covered, but how about the numbers part?

Here's a chance to test your combined computational and cinematic skills in a single swoop. Listed below are 10 movies, all of which begin with a number.

Can you decode them, from One to Ten? For instance, 3M would be Three Musketeers.

1FOTCN
2WN
3DOTC
4WAAF
5EP
6DSN
7YIT
8LF
9TF
10LI

Submit your answers in an email, and make sure to include your name, address, and country in your entry. Send your answers to: puzzles@writer-on-line.com

The winner will receive a three month, free subscription to JustMarkets and his or her name published in our next issue of Writer Online.

DEADLINE:midnight, Thursday, August 4, 2005

Answers to the Summer Knows!

1. The Door into Summer - Robert A. Heinlein
2. Summer of 49 - David Halberstam
3. Summer of Roses - Luanne Rice
4. The Goodbye Summer - Patricia Gaffney
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
6. Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
7. Summer Sisters – Judy Blume
8. Last Days of Summer - Steve Kluger
9. Indian Summer – Sam Pickering
10. The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc - Loraine Despres

And the winner of the Summer Knows Contest is Judy Woods of Greenville, TX. Congrats, Judy! You will start receiving your JustMarkets daily digest this week!