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...travel guide, Neither Here Nor There is nothing if not honest, which distinguish it from the rest. For example, Bryson became so frustrated with the other "incredibly useless guidebooks to Italy" that he decided not to dignify them by revealing their names--except that "one of them should have been called Let's Go Get Another Guidebook and the other one was Fodor...
...disgusted." "An abomination." "This report would remove the Bible as the authoritative Word of God, making it merely a guidebook." One after another, participants at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) rose in the Baltimore Convention Center to attack one of the most radical series of proposals on sexual morality ever to come before a major ) Christian denomination. In essence, the church report, three years in preparation, shattered 19 centuries of tradition and asked the church, for the first time, to bestow acceptance upon sex outside of marriage -- for homosexuals, for adult singles living together and, with less...
Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like 'The food looks pathetic,' " urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side...
Nobody wants to stay in Belize City, which every guidebook dismisses as a noisy dump full of intrusive hustlers. Instead, one heads for the outer islands, such as the Turneffe Islands, that are geared up for sporting tourism, mainly scuba diving, snorkeling and line fishing; or a small plane whisks you north to San Pedro on Ambergris Cay, a thin digit of land that protrudes south from the Mexican border. To the east is the barrier reef, which runs parallel to the coast, less than a mile offshore. To the west are mangroves and shallow flats, and then...
...guidebook was published by the University of Arkansas' National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information, a distinguished institution, to be sure. In fact, it receives nearly all its funding -- more than $1.8 million since 1988 -- from guess who. Yup, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...