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...Giving them a manual doesn't work. They have to taste it, feel it, touch it," Mayer says...
...goes some of the advice in The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook (Chronicle Books; 176 pages; $14.95), an improbable how-to manual that recently has been climbing the paperback nonfiction best-seller list and is now in its eighth printing. In addition to bad animal encounters, it probes life-threatening predicaments you'll almost certainly never face. For examples, the book offers straight-faced tips on how to escape quicksand (don't fight it, float on it); how to survive if your parachute fails to open (if a fellow skydiver is nearby--and that's one big if--grab...
...emergency medics, to come up with accurate solutions to the 40 scenarios in the book. While they enjoyed exploring their inner MacGyvers, they don't plan to test-run their material. "You might survive but end up with some kind of disfiguring injury," says Borgenicht. For example, the manual carefully lays out the best procedure for jumping from a building into a Dumpster before noting, under "Be Aware," that "the Dumpster may be filled with bricks or other unfriendly materials." In the chapter describing how to wrestle free from an alligator, the authors explain that you should tap the creature...
...microwave oven with a complex 50-button console. If you can't figure out how to heat a cup of cocoa without reading the instructions, it's the manufacturer who is stupid. A fuchsia cell phone might be pretty, but a cell phone that does not require a manual--now that's truly beautiful. KATRINA GALWAY Washington...
Third, and most exciting, geneticists are finding many "pseudogenes" in human and animal DNA--copies of old, discarded genes. It's a bit like finding the manual for a typewriter bound into the back of the manual for your latest word-processing software. There may be a lot of interesting obsolete instructions hidden in our genes...