Word: diagramming
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Whether players read the playbook like a textbook or not, everyone has at least one hour of meetings per day listening to coaches analyze tape and watching them diagram plays on the board...
...OBOS has had on her life. One year during college, her school introduced a new course, "The Biology of Women." In spite of the enormous waiting list, this woman was lucky enough to be able to register for the class. On the first day, all students were given a diagram of the female body to identify "key parts." The professor returned the results the next day--only 30% of women could identify these parts. "Don't worry," said the professor, "we'll change all that." The text for the class? Our Bodies, Ourselves...
...hard to fully accept the articles about the Galileo spacecraft in the papers this week. The diagram on the front of the New York Times yesterday, with its careful description of the stages of parachute fallout on the surface of Jupiter, was masterfully done, but was more reminiscent of a high-school science text than a miracle of modern technology...
Captain Brad Konik fed freshman Craig MacDonald down to the right of the goal, MacDonald then crossed the puck to Bent, who was waiting to Konte's left, and Bent blasted it home. Even John Madden couldn't diagram it any better than that one--a sort of a tic-tac-goal...
...Damasio, including Elliot, the businessman who started behaving irrationally after surgery to remove a brain tumor. Elliot cannot behave rationally, even though his intelligence was not affected by his tumor. The part of the brain destroyed by invading tissue was in a region of the prefrontal cortex (see diagram) essential to decision making. But what Elliot lost, psychological testing revealed, was the ability to experience emotion. While the amygdala does process fear, his doctors argue from the example of Elliot and the other patients that other parts of the brain are also critical to regulating emotion...