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...drink "holy water." She fears that as Umair gets older, he will be taken to a pagal khana (mad house) where, she says, he would spend his days in a cage. In sharp contrast, in Chicago her son benefits from classes with a 1:1 student-teacher ratio at New Horizon Center, a private school that receives public funding. Average cost per student: between...
...greater, higher order than his. Besides, Ray is a man. "His caring is a potion," the book's omniscient narrator tells us, "mixed with one part benevolent altruist and one part chimpanzee penis." Is that unusual? Or, for that matter, wrong? No, Martin says. "But it's a ratio. When you're young, the chimpanzee ratio is 80-20, and when you're older it's supposed...
...Martin: Maybe yes, maybe no. But it?s a ratio. When you?re young it?s 80/20, and when you?re older it?s supposed to be 20/80...
...greatest songwriters of the 20th century should have not only come from England (a country with a virtually nonexistent profile in popular music at the time) but would have come from - and met! - in Liverpool, of all places, the most extraordinary thing about the Beatles phenomenon is the unsurpassed ratio of good songs in their recorded output. OK, we wouldn't be talking about them at all if "Misery" had been their best bid for stardom. And of course, off-the-wall items such as "Wild Honey Pie" only make sense in a context such as the sprawling collage...
...medals - a remarkable achievement for an impoverished country of 11 million people. Indeed, if each country's medal haul is divided by its population size in millions (which is, after all, its pool of available talent), Cuba comes out the second-place country over all with a remarkable 2.6 ratio. The runaway winners, of course, would be Australia, whose 58 medals divided among 18 million people would give it the winning ratio of 3.2. Tied in third place would be another two former communist countries, Belarus and Hungary, whose 17 medals and 10 million people gives them a ratio...