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``TIPPING POINT'' WHETS APPETITE FOR MORE.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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The Virginian Pilot
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May 21, 2000
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2000 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THE TIPPING POINT
How Little Things
Can Make a Big Difference
MALCOLM GLADWELL
Little, Brown and Co. 279 pp. $24.95.
NEW TAKES on the world are often a lot of fun. They may turn out to be wacky (``The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind''), prone to abuse by popularizers (the ``paradigm shift''), or lightweight but enduring (``The Peter Principle''). But a book that gets you thinking is a refreshing exception.
``The Tipping Point'' is such a rare bird. The title concept apparently comes from epidemiology and describes a point at which a localized outbreak of disease becomes epidemic. As in a finely balanced scale, it is ...
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