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This report has just been released. I've downloaded a free copy, but so far haven't gotten beyond the table of contents, which I will detail as I continue reading.
I'd been aware of this problem, but not of the full extent of the numbers--and, most im ...more "
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Valerie said:
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There's a tendency to treat technical manuals as not literary works. This is a misapprehension, particularly when these reports are aimed at individuals who are educated laypersons, but who have little or no understanding of the technical argot of th
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Valerie said:
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My mother's family mostly came from Greene County, Illinois. My great-great-grandfather, Elisha Stout, born in 1849, was a menopause child, born after all his siblings were grown or nearly so. Family legend says that his parents came out to what was
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