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...someone seeking advice about what to do for an ache, for example, or who is secretly worried about occasional bowel bleeding or vague chest discomfort, the search through a standard handbook may produce more anxiety than the malady; the reader must hop from disease to disease until he finds one with symptoms that match his complaint. Symptoms adroitly solves that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles...
While emphasizing the need to see a physician, given certain symptoms, the handbook also stresses that too much doctoring is as bad as too little: "If the disease is comparatively minor, and the symptoms are minor, it is better to try to get by without medication." Above all, it makes a strong pitch for physical fitness, endorsing everything from swimming to sex: "The body is far more likely to rust out than wear out; the more it is used the better it will function." The same might be said of Symptoms...
...Ives Goddard, formerly of Harvard and presently of the Smithsonian Institution, where he is linguistic editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, doesn't think highly of Barry Fell's word lists. Goddard, who is an authority on Algonquin languages, says Fell's work in that area is "full of errors of analysis and interpretation. He has trouble getting Indian words and their glosses right, he mixes languages together [a cardinal sin in comparative linguistics]...There is not even a vague inkling of enough resemblances to require an historical explanation...
There should be no job shortage for the volunteers of 1976. The Intercristo computer job-matching service offered 14,000 potential openings, mostly in the Third World, where opposition to missionary work in some areas is still intense. The new Mission Handbook, to be published by World Vision this month, reports that there are now an all-time high of 35,698 Protestant missionaries from the U.S. (v. 7,010 Roman Catholic ones), and that church members' annual giving to mission boards totals $633 million, a 60% jump in three years. Though several denominations such as the Episcopal, United...
...education system is failing, and was not afraid to offend the program's constituents, the college life task force preferred to duck the master problem altogether. Instead of addressing the fact that some masters are not performing their jobs adequately, the group simply asks that a new master's handbook be issued. Instead of trying to solve the problem of not being able to get or maintain top-flight masters, the report recommends that there be more coordination between...