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Gilland's teaching duties have been assumed bysomeone else, according to friends. In laboratorysections, Gilland primarily aided dissections andpreparations of anatomical models, which require alarge amount of manual function, the woman said."And that's hard to do when your hands are incasts," she said...
With her research from the aborted Buddha project, Nair wrote her own film: "Kamasutra," an erotic comedy which takes place in a 15th-century fort out side of Delhi. She relates, "You know [the Kamasutra] is very popularly denigrated as a manual of how to make love. But it has a very deep philosophy attached to it. And the film is about that philosophy. Either you can approach love as...just the skill of making it. Or, if you approach it with a partner,...you have...the skill of making love--but with the spirit. If the spirit is correct...
...This film presents the daily activities of Yerkes Primate Research Center. Scientists in the film are concerned with studying the physical and mental development of primates. Some of the experimental work shown in the film deals with the capacity to learn, remember and apply language and manual skills, the effect of alcohol and drugs on behavior, the control of aggressive and sexual behavior and other neural and physiological determinants of behavior...
...example, Scheir and Neighbor blamed eachother for printing an election manual onsingle-sided paper...
Nevertheless, Generation X has been anointed as the "On the Road" of our time. The media loves it because Coupland is thoughtful enough to turn the margins into a manual for the new age, full of improvised jargon and invented slang: "McJob," "recurving" and "cryptotechnophobia." Never mind that no human tongue, including Coupland's, has ever spoken these words; they are comforting grist for the media mill...