having 3 separate-but-theoretically-equal documents is a recipe for disaster

1) It seems like each of these documents should always contain exactly the same text... towards that goal I think we should have one that can be rendered and saved in different forms.

2) Merging the text into the readme ensures that it is easily accessed / displayed (github will display it nicely to anyone who visits the page, they don't have to click on or dig through files).