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April 2002
|Volume 10 Issue 4
(Two months earlier, Philadelphia)
Friday night 11:00 pm. My head aches with tension from another day of working on the talks for this year’s regional workshops. I guess I never realized exactly how much work went into this conference. Now that I h…
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CASE TIME AND PRODUCTIVITY DATA
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