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/ I got a hint of things to come when I   \
| overheard my boss lamenting, 'The books |
| are done and we still don't have an     |
| author! I must sign someone today!      |
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| -- Tamim Ansary, "Edutopia Magazine,    |
| Issue 2, November 2004"                 |
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\ on the topic of school textbooks        /
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