Just a thought.

Regarding "Possible Worlds: Imagination gets its due as a real-world thinking tool" (SN: 3/26/05, p. 200), might I suggest that, rather than being a tool of thinking, imagination is just another word for thinking?

GREG OTTINGER Ottinger is a surname derived from the city of Oettingen in Bavaria.

Ottinger may refer to:

Albert Ottinger, New York politician of the Republican Party

, SUNNYSIDE Sunnyside may refer to the following:

Communities and neighborhoods in the United States

Sunnyside, San Francisco (see Neighborhoods in San Francisco, California)
Sunnyside, Queens, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City

, CALIF.

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Title Annotation:	LETTERS
Author:	Ottinger, Greg
Publication:	Science News
Article Type:	Letter to the Editor
Date:	May 21, 2005
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