Word: booklet
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Public Influence: One front, the Way to Happiness Foundation, has distributed to children in thousands of the nation's public schools more than 3.5 million copies of a booklet Hubbard wrote on morality. The church calls the scheme "the largest dissemination project in Scientology history." Applied Scholastics is the name of still another front, which is attempting to install a Hubbard tutorial program in public schools, primarily those populated by minorities. The group also plans a 1,000-acre campus, where it will train educators to teach various Hubbard methods. The disingenuously named Citizens Commission on Human Rights...
...them to move out," he told police. "That was the reason they were poisoned." Next he began planning for his favorite recreation, the annual Mensa murder weekend, when the geniuses gather to solve their perfect fantasy crime. "When a death threat appears on the doorstep," he wrote in a booklet for the event, "prudent people throw out all their food and watch what they eat." An undercover agent, planted in Mensa to befriend Trepal and learn his secrets, ultimately found the evidence against him: a small vial in the garage containing traces of thallium. How could a genius...
...there is also a strong desire to learn more specifics about the houses. The College has released a list of house activities, published a booklet entitled "Inside the Houses" and disseminated information in the "Yard Bulletin," according to Catherine M. Millett, a Harvard housing officer...
That vague job description is elaborated upon by 23-year veteran Heimert in a booklet distributed to Eliot House residents. The master, he writes, "is charged with promoting the House's 'general welfare' (the senior tutor is officially responsible for the particular). What the 'general welfare' involves, and how it is promoted, are questions to which the answers seem to change annually or even, it sometime seems, from month to month...
...sheer size of the problem that prompted Fernandez to suggest the free-condom idea as part of an expanded AIDS-education program for the city's 261,000 high school students. Under the plan, staff volunteers at each school would hand out condoms, along with a booklet explaining their use, to every student who wants them. Sex counseling would be available but would not be required, for fear it would deter students from seeking protection...