Just as significant as the expurgations are the additions: six chapters, totalling some twenty-eight thousand words.

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Going from a state school to a prestigious engineering institution, he was floored on the first day when a professor expected everyone to have already learned the material in the first six chapters of an algorithms textbook.

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That kind of thing needn't be confined to PCs: You might order a book made up of six chapters on Russian stamps from six different books, or a CD with 12 tracks you specify, or a pair of pants cut to your measurements.

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And we've got six more chapters to go after that, where we're going to learn about what happened to the characters after the hurricane, and sort of take you up to the present day.

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So, we thank you for your comments and we look forward to more of them as we move forward through the next 16 chapters and six months of writing.

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There also are 14 chapters and six investment clubs.

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Van Etten fired executives, imposed tight controls and cut the number of chapters from 110 to 79 by, for example, merging six units in his native New England into one.

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