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Letter: Fast read

Published 25 August 2001

From David Williams

Feedback
(4 August) clearly doesn’t appreciate the intellectual rigour with
which Cambridge citizens read their local paper. I have a friend who has spent
seven years doing a PhD on two chapters of Judges from the Old
Testament—about 1600 words.

That makes spending 17 minutes on 300 words of news look like skim reading,
wouldn’t you say?

Histon, Cambridgeshire

Issue no. 2305 published 25 August 2001

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