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Study finds one-third in D.C. illiterate

WASHINGTON - About one-third of the people living in the national's capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia.

Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps and filling out job applications.

So, as you may know tiki R a Scientist. As such, we had to spend several years doing Research, which in our case basically boiled down to injecting strange hormones into rat brains. Whilst the rats were still around and biting.

The "student athletes" (hahahaha) at our university liked us rat lab types, since they could get class credit in psychology by, basically, helping us feed and water and scrape up shit for the rats.

tiki had an assistant one quarter who attended the university on a football scholarship. He was a really nice guy. He'd been raised on a farm, so he loved animals. One of his duties was to weigh our little critters. The task involved copying the weights from a digital scale into a lab notebook.

Which, he could barely do.

He was in college, at a major state university, on a scholarship. And he could barely write well enough to transcribe numbers from a digital readout to a piece of paper.

I later learned he dropped out of the program. I guess it was fairly common with scholarship athletes. And did I mention he had a kid? A lot of the football guys already had kids.

We often wonder what happened to him.