1.   Choice, in almost all its facets, is diminished in the life of an illiterate adult.

2.   Health expenditures necessitated by the inability of the illiterate adult to use preventive health care measures are not documented.

3.   The fatalistic apathy that this creates becomes a part of the induced passivity that I have seen in thousands of illiterate adults.

4.   To the degree that we accept such rituals without denunciation, we are colluding in the further subjugation of illiterate adults.

5.   Based on one-to-one encouragement and simple instruction, the Laubach method has helped millions of illiterate adults across the world to learn to read.

6.   He also developed, in conjunction with IBM, a computer-based system to help teach illiterate adults and adolescents to how to read and write.

7.   Ripken and his wife, Kelly, started exploring possibilities, including a stop at some centers where illiterate adults were learning to read.

8.   The group advocates creating civil literacy brigades, in which conscripts would work with local governments and schools to tutor troubled youths and illiterate adults.

9.   Paulo Freire, whose books on teaching reading skills to illiterate adults were used around the world, died of a heart attack in a Sao Paulo hospital Friday.