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...first thing a layman may be surprised to learn from The Prize, a new PBS series about the history of oil, is that the stuff wasn't always around. "Rock oil" was known in the early 19th century only as a medicine. It wasn't until 1859 that some Pennsylvania businessmen first extracted it from the ground and refined it into kerosene. For years, the substance was used mainly to light lamps. Only with the coming of the automobile did oil become the most sought-after fuel in the world. Since then it has been the impetus for great capitalist...
...military acronyms), Stehley explained the recruitment process. There's the general ASVAB test, the DLAB test for language ability, the DEP for deferring enlistment, the physical, the FBI background check, the contract, the swearing in, the possibility to enlist as an E-4 (specialist or, in even more layman's terms, corporal), the ability to choose one's exact job (from infantry to counterintelligence), the eight weeks of BT (basic training) and four to 52 weeks of AIT (advanced individual training) for every recruit, the 30 days vacation per year, the medical and dental benefits and the opportunity to purchase...
...THEORIST. Stephen Hawking is one of the physicists who made important contributions to this theory. In 1988 he published A Brief History of Time, a worldwide best seller that attempted to explain this idea in layman's language and show how it might describe both the origins and the end of the universe. His millions of readers may not have fully comprehended his ideas, but all of us did come to understand Hawking as a brave and inspiring figure. Stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), he is completely immobilized, uses a wheelchair and can speak only...
...layman's terms, Ancel describes the theorem as applicable to the area of pure math called "dynamical systems...
Assisting the layman in getting past the lyrics will be the cottage industry of those rock critics who earn a living by explaining away the Gunners' verbal excesses as "satire," "parody" or a crude but sincere attempt to achieve a sort of audiophonic cinema verite. These are the same people who fashion byzantine intellectual justifications for the vicious anti-Semitism of the rap group Public Enemy or the uninterrupted verbal degradation of women that is the stock-in-trade of 2 Live Crew...