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How lucky I am to be on fake spring break.

Verb This Book

I started reading The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference yesterday, and got to the second page of the first chapter before I nearly threw it across the bus. There are no graphs in sight! The author starts the chapter by saying, "syphillis in Baltimore increased by 500%" without saying what the numerical increase was. A 1-to-5 increase is not a compelling statistic; a 10,000-to-50,000 increase is. So: do I need to finish this The Tipping Point, or toss it in the "return to used book store" pile post haste?