My own favorite current example of this kind is a group called Glamour Gals which started on Long Island but which now has some 68 chapters in 14 states.
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There are some 35 "chapters" with which countries must comply in order to join the EU. Turkey has passed only one of them.
In the four years since Transparency International was founded (mostly by ex-World Bank officials), some 70 local chapters have opened, several in Asia.
Just as significant as the expurgations are the additions: six chapters, totalling some twenty-eight thousand words.
Some readers may find the mathematical chapters heavy going, but Mr Derbyshire makes a valiant attempt at explaining the mathematical ideas around the problem.
But some actually help to write new chapters in political life: look at Paul Tsongas's role in converting the Democrats to fiscal responsibility, for example.
Despite his non-sequential chapters, Mr Winner conjurs up some fairly intriguing patterns of his own.
It is only with the chapters on the peace and economics prizes that some sense of the prize-awarding process itself seems to emerge.
Some areas are stalemated: the EU has frozen several chapters of the talks, and Turkey refuses to recognise Cyprus, an EU member state.
The contrast with Germany (in some respects) and with Britain (in many) is sharp, and described in several chapters.
Familiar diseases are given a fresh gloss, while even the most devoted hypochondriac will find some new ones to worry about. (Ever heard of parrot fever?) One of the most surprising chapters is on HIV, about which much has already been written.
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