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31.12.08

BEATING THE HALF CENTURY. In my third quarter report, I noted the real world as interfering with progress writing reviews.

The first and second quarter reports are also available.
  1. Before the North Shore Line, 9 October 2008.
  2. Black Rednecks and White Liberals, 21 October 2008.
  3. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe, 25 October 2008.
  4. Sundown Towns, 3 December 2008.
  5. Hot, Flat, and Crowded, 7 December 2008.
  6. Discover Your Inner Economist, 22 December 2008.
  7. Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, 26 December 2008.
  8. More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdon of Economics, 27 December 2008.
  9. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, 29 December 2008.
  10. Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization for America, 30 December 2008.

The bookworm has 51 segments this year.

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"Cold Spring Shops" was the name of the primary repair and car building facility of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company ... builders of trolley dining cars and the Christmas parade train ... perhaps I can be that creative too.

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