Answer to Puzzle Contest (from the winner):

"COWL ('cow' and 'owl' if you remove the last and first letters, respectively)"

Winner: Gregory Pike, Rockville, Maryland. There is something in the water in Rockville, as we have too many of our winners in that area! New research shows that you can forget Harvard, MIT, Yale... send your kids to Rockville! ;-)

Contest Statistics: Newsletter sent to 309023 subscribers, 36 answers submitted, 36 answer correct, 100.00% accuracy. Chance of a correct answer winning: 2.78%.