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Speaking of esperanza. . .we hope to continue bringing you Etexts for the foreseeable future. . .and we thank you for all your support.

We do plan to have another edition of our CDROM out this month.

So. . .if we manage to average 32 files in a dozen other languages in 1997, we can still manage to double the number of Etexts on our servers.

Please feel free to forward or repost our Newsletter to appropriate sites or persons.

One of the lights at the end of our tunnel that I have been made a "Visiting Scientist of the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon University"

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