Mr. Workman was known for having a whimsical streak, packaging books with toys such as jacks and marbles, a soccer manual that included a ball and a karate manual with a white belt.

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This leads into the question of exactly how the tax structure will change, and for that I must say that you can write entire books on such a matter.

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The Mr Men books are a popular series for younger children, which has characters such as Mr Happy and Little Miss Sunshine.

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Train, active in foreign and military affairs for four decades as a citizen and writer (he's the author of such financial books as The Money Masters, which profiled Templeton), has a rsum suited to so sweeping a cause.

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Healy, author of books such as Let Them Eat Prozac and Pharmageddon, offers a methodology for testing prayer that is no less intriguing for its firmly tongue-in-cheek underpinnings.

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