Word: manuals
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Your article "New Maladies" [June 29] prompts me to report another one. After 30 years of driving a large gas-guzzling automatic-shift car, I switched to a four-cylinder gas saver and developed "manual-transmission knee" from operating the clutch...
...reformers' contentions are open to dispute. Unless the U.S. proposes to match the Soviets tank for tank, it must rely on high-technology weapons to "fight outnumbered and win," as the Army's official field manual puts it. Still, the reformers have caught the ear of an influential group of legislators: Cohen, Hatfield and Alaska's Ted Stevens among the Senate's controlling Republicans; Hart, Nunn and Michigan's Carl Levin among Democratic Senators; Republicans Jack Edwards of Alabama, Newton Gingrich of Georgia and New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo in the House. By immersing themselves in the technical arcana...
...19th century, literature has housed a number of professional resisters, from the cast of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed and Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener to Camus's The Stranger. The letters of Convict Jack Abbott extend and ultimately strain that tradition. Part polemic, part existential survival manual, In the Belly of the Beast was culled from 1,000 pages of handwritten missives to Norman Mailer, then composing The Executioner's Song. Its message is brief, but it echoes like a slammed door in the corridors of maximum security...
...Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III), an official publication of the American Psychiatric Association, is the definitive word on psychological disturbances. Viet Nam veterans (along with rape victims, among others) achieved some psychiatric status when DSM-III in 1980 officially defined their suffering as "posttraumatic stress disorder." In such distress, a person develops vivid symptoms after a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the range of usual human experience: he or she grows numb toward the external world, or else hyperalert, jumpy, insomniac; in nightmares the event that brought on the trauma is obsessively replayed...
Though Britain has not historically been as vacation-obsessed as Continental Europe, the U.K.'s entry into the European Community in 1973 is helping to change that. Some 60% of British manual workers now receive between four and five vacation weeks annually. Explains Benjamin Roberts, professor of industrial relations at the London School of Economics: "Employers in the U.K. have found it difficult to resist demands for longer holidays because they have seen them in effect in Europe. American employers tend to look at the cost-effectiveness of vacations and therefore take a stronger line...