The article, "It Isn't Just a Game: Clues to Avid Rooting," by James McKinley Jr., is available as a pdf file viewable in Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you need the reader, click the button:

This reading is taken from The Little, Brown Reader, edited by Marcia Stubbs and Sylvan Barnet, 9th edition, Longman, 2003, pp. 585-89.

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• "It Isn't Just a Game: Clues to Avid Rooting"