"I don't really count the days since cancer, because it's like every day's a birthday, " he said.

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But the RPI can be gamed: Four of the Mountain West's five tournament teams played non-Division-I opponents, which don't count in the RPI and thus don't hurt their rankings.

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Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.

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"I don't think anybody's really been able to get a good hard count, but I would say it's probably in the range of 50 votes, " he said.

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Booking.com, or other online travel agencies don't count as central reservation system referrals in the in the math I use to calculate this.

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Even so, if anything in my routine is out of whack -- if I don't eat often enough, or if I become overly stressed -- I can count on one or two days of misery.

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