Word: manuals
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: the nightmare of a botched attempt to end it." So Arthur Koestler wrote in his 1981 preface to A Guide to Self-Deliverance, a suicide manual distributed to the 8,000 members of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society. When the famed 77-year-old writer (Darkness at Noon), who suffered from Parkinson's disease, decided two weeks ago that his life was intolerable, he reportedly swallowed the finely calibrated dose of drugs prescribed by the society. Sharing the fatal potion was his wife Cynthia...
...suicide guide that Koestler promoted, like other how-to suicide manuals published in the U.S., Scotland and The Netherlands, was designed only for the use of hopelessly sick people, with the express purpose of reducing, as the British guide puts it, "the incidence of unsuccessful attempts." A Guide to Self-Deliverance is heart-wrenching reading. The manual stresses that suicide should be a last resort for those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags...
...simply pays for espionage, often at a surprisingly low rate. U.S. counterintelligence experts are concerned because a growing number of Americans with little or no political convictions have taken the initiative to provide the Soviets with information purely for monetary gain. Says the FBI's O'Malley: "The KGB manual says that Americans can be bought, and unfortunately it is often true, especially in difficult economic times." A roundup of recent rogues...
...scheduling and free-form drawing. The user can run several programs at once, just as an office worker can spread several jobs across a single desktop. Creating and editing files, running printers and other peripheral devices, and juggling long lists of numbers can all be done without consulting a manual or remembering a single computer command. Explains John Couch, Apple's vice president in charge of the Lisa project: "What we wanted to do was to emulate the way an individual works in an office...
When a Manhattan publisher offered her six figures for yet another diet-fitness manual, Christie Brinkley, 27, leaped to a task she was long destined for. "I grew up on the beach in Malibu," says she. "It was literally my front yard." A sampling of Christie's tips for Beauty and the Beach, which Simon & Schuster hopes to bring out this spring: rub potatoes on the back (good for soothing a sunburn), cover the eyes with cucumbers (eliminates puffiness), and to prevent dry skin, apply alligator pears. In short, real women don't eat avocados, they wear...