As will be explained below, students taking repetitoria usually pay for a chunk of hours per subject and this could mean anything between DM 1,000 and 3,000 (approximately ₤1,000) per course on, say, civil law or procedural law etc. Even for those students who follow repetitoria in many courses, the overall cost is still low by comparison to British fees and infinitesimally low by comparison to American ones (though it does not seem so to the German takers).

Residency training of physicians thus dwindles to the production of a new breed of robotized physicians — robodocs — that practice exclusively rule-based reasoning with the help of a digital computer and invisible experts.

I have heard my grandmother tell that story, and she used also to tell another about a mill-goblin somewhere up in the country, where no one could get anything ground at the mill, it was so bewitched.

You going to get down to it? said the naked man to his still boxered opponent.