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...Make War is all the more chilling for including such bloodless assessments. A hybrid of manual and analysis, the book describes what warriors and their equipment can and cannot do. Dunnigan is no recruiting sergeant. Details of ground, air and sea operations, nuclear and chemical capabilities and logistics are rendered in a neutral tone that amounts to wry understatement on human nature. On the standard of living at the front: "It is very low. The overriding goal is not to get hit by flying objects." On looting: "Arming a man still seems to change his concepts of property rights...
...some 300 yds. short of the runway. Of 174 passengers and crew aboard the Japan Air Lines DC-8 bound from Fukuoka, 24 people died. Police claimed last week that Katagiri told them he felt ill the morning of the flight. Said he: "After I switched from auto to manual operation just before landing, I felt nausea, then an inexplicable feeling of terror, and completely lost consciousness...
...relatives, like its venerable ancestor, pinball, Pac-Man providers the clearest example you'll ever see of the theory of positive reinforcement, negative feedback Do something smart and you keep playing Do something dumb and wham' you have to stop. Buy this shiny little booklet-which looks like the manual they give you with a new T.V. and goes about as deeply into the product's real meaning-and you can go on playing forever...
...reply, an underground Solidarity group in Silesia published a sort of manual of passive protest. Samples: "In organizing strikes, do not elect leaders, so as to avoid later police action. Work slowly, complain about the mess and the inefficiency of your superiors. Flood the army and the commissars with questions and pretend to be a halfwit. Follow meticulously the most ridiculous instructions." Every worker, it concluded, should remember these words: "I know only what I need to know." Nobody outside Poland knows to what extent these opposition efforts are succeeding, but even the government admitted last week that production...
More than 300 years ago, Racine wrote I that a province of southern France could support 20 caterers, while a bookseller would starve to death. Today the ratio is probably reversed, if only because, grâce à dieu, cookbooks have largely replaced caterers. More than a gastronomic manual or a compilation of recipes, a well-made cookbook blends strands of history, geography and philosophy with dollops of legend and even a dash of the unsavory. This is particularly true of regional cookbooks, which have come into their own in recent years as increasingly sophisticated home chefs look beyond...