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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!igor.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!clong
  2. From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
  3. Newsgroups: misc.consumers
  4. Subject: Cheap, Sturdy Bookcases?
  5. Message-ID: <Jul.23.11.21.20.1992.27910@remus.rutgers.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jul 92 15:21:21 GMT
  7. Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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  11. I went shopping for bookcases recently and was shocked to find
  12. that anything that was reasonably priced was crap, and that
  13. anything that looked sturdy was greatly overpriced (at Ikea).
  14. Does anyone have any suggestions?
  15. -- 
  16. Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618
  17.  
  18. "In a study of schoolboys, an educator discovered a correlation between size
  19.  of feet and quality of handwriting.  The boys with the larger feet were,
  20.  on the average, older."        Wallis & Roberts, _The Nature of Statistics_
  21.