When I first started writing newspaper editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1992, I learned that "-30-" (pronounced "dash thirty dash") was the journalist's code for letting an editor know where your copy ended. Most media historians th believe the typesetting mark originated when news was filed by telegraph. Western Union's famous mid-19th-century 92 Code of numerical shorthand signals lists the meaning of "-30-" as: "No more — the end." I prefer the definition in Webster's Dictionary: "A sign of completion." From 1992-1999, I wrote an estimated 300 bylined newspaper columns and nearly 1,000 unsigned...