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The Installment Plan

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Have you ever wanted to learn how to knit? Have you ever wanted to own the most iconic cars in miniature? How about construct a model battleship? Read every important book of universal literature? Now you can. Beginning this month you can buy the first installment of any part of human knowledge at your kiosk. And, if you're a millionnaire, you can acquire every installment to its end, in about five years. I'm not kidding. September being the month kids return to school, some adults get nostalgic. So, many pretend to be students once again and learn something new. When you go to buy the newspaper or walk by a kiosk there is the first installment of "Learn German in Two Easy Weekly Lessons" staring at you. It will probably consist of a large booklet of ten pages, and a CD or DVD that lasts fifteen minutes with two lessons. At a modical cost of maybe 1.99. That is paid for and taken home. And yes, it's easy. You have just learned how to say hello , goodbye , and th...