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- From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
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- Subject: Re: Democratic Whiners Can't Take It
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.044511.14690@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 04:45:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.223812.486@anasazi.com> best@anasazi.com (Mike Best) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.183531.29972@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
- >>
- >>Heh, heh. Re: 12 MILLION: a large number of whom don't read normally.
- >>[Source: Simon & Schuster marketing research]
- >
- >Yes, I was called by S&S and coincidentally I was reading abnormally.
- >I was actually reading backwards and, while they pressured me to confess,
- >I had to admit that I sometimes read books by reading the reflected image
- >of the pages off the surface of a mirror. At other times I am simply
- >abnormal when I read but they said that this does not qualify as reading
- >abnormally (they did give me a contact in the psychiatric world though).
-
- A better way to read abnormally is to read only the first and last
- word of each paragraph, then extrapolate. I find I can go through
- _War and Peace_ very, very quickly doing that.
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- In fiscal year 1991, the government agencies classified as secret a
- total of 7,107,017 documents. This marks the first time that the
- total number of reported classification decisions in a year is a
- palindrome. -- 1991 Information Security Oversight Office
-