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Fortunately, some common sense and simple math can produce rough answers. People buy a book for many reasons: either they want to read it, think they ought to read it, or want to impress people by making them think they have read it. But it is a truth universally acknowledged that folks are motivated by desire and ease, rather than self-improvement or showiness, when it comes to the private act of actually turning the pages. Hence, a formula that indicates what percentage of books sold are really read. The Fully Read Index , (FRI) equals the Author Comfort Index...
Meanwhile, Indian military leaders were pondering why things had gone so wrong in their rough equivalent of America's debacle in Viet Nam. Invited into Sri Lanka by then President J.R. Jayewardene, the Indian army's original mission was to collect arms from Tamil militants, who had been trained and equipped by India in the first place. In exchange, Jayewardene promised that the 2 million Tamils, who have suffered discrimination at the hands of the majority Sinhalese (11.8 million), would be given more autonomy over a newly created Northeastern province, where they predominate. But when the Tigers refused to give...
Meanwhile, North Africans were having a rough time in France as well. There, three men of Maghrebian extraction were slain in separate attacks...
...took some ribbing when Bulger told Kennedy, "I know you'd find it real rough...
...Tram, a second-year student at the MedSchool, says the rough lifestyle of medicalinterns makes the career especially undersirable.He says that an although an intern may earn$30,000 a year, that intern usually works about100 hours each week, making for a relatively slimhourly wage...