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- ∗I would like to thank Daniel R. Vining, Jr., for providing indefatigable encouragement and practical, constructive criticism; Stephen Gale for stimulating my thinking about regions; Richard Forstall and Andrew Isserman for making numerous, thoughtful comments on later drafts of the paper; and Thomas Elwertowski for sharing unselfishly his computer programming expertise.