A: stolen waiting room magazines

STUDY: DOCTORS’ OFFICES LOSE MILLIONS TO MAGAZINE THEFT: Do you usually read the magazines piled in the waiting room of your doctor’s office? For a new study, researchers placed 87 magazines in waiting rooms and tracked the rate at which they disappeared. Some of the magazines were “gossipy” while others were news oriented. They found that 60 percent of magazines published within the last two months were taken, compared with 29 percent of magazines older than two months. Over a month, an average of 1.3 magazines disappeared each day. “Gossipy” magazines were swiped more often than the “newsy” ones. They crunched numbers and figured U.K. practices lose about 19 million dollars a year in swiped magazines. (Time)