"Freakonomics" [.]

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<KKK>
__ By the 1920s, Klan claimed eight million members, including President Warren G. Harding, who reportedly took his Klan oath in the Green Room of the White House.
__ He spelled out the Klan hierarchy as it proceeded from the local to the national level: an Exalted Cyclops and his twelve Terrors; a Great Titan and his twelve Furies; a Grand Dragon and his nine Hydras; and the Imperial Wizard and his fifteen Genii.

<online dating>
__ 57% men who post ads don't receive even one e-mail; 23% for women.
__ A headful of blond hair on a woman is worth about the same as having a college degree.

<crack>
__ The problem with crack dealing is the same as in every other glamour profession: a lot of people are competing for a very few prizes.
__ DuPont had pulled off the feat that every marketer dreams of: it brought class to the masses. In this regard, the invention of nylon stockings was markedly similar to the invention of crack cocaine.

__ not a aberrationally brave person
__ Madame Ceausescu, known officially as the Best Mother Romania Could Have

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