Word: manuals
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...head might leave the victim alive. Such is the wisdom of Hit Man, a step-by-step guide to succeeding in the paid-killer trade. Author Rex Feral, a pen name that's ersatz Latin for "king of the wild animals," insists that this $10 murder-for-hire manual provides a public service. Sometimes, Feral explains, a hit man is the only means of obtaining "personal justice...
...abnormal mutation, distort into a subspecies taxonomically known as Bad TF-hood--that is, one to look out for after handing in that paper. Because Bad TF-hood is a highly developed and cultivated state requiring great tenacity to achieve, we at the Institute have developed the following manual, originally published in the New England Journal of Semiotic Hermeneutics of Lower Academic Ecosystems, designed to guide up-and-coming undergraduate and graduate students into a world with no natural predators. Somewhere in this College, someone is preparing to become a Bad TF. It might even be you. So read...
...Norton; $29.95), Pinker suggests an intriguing if highly controversial answer. The mind, he says, is like an ancient, jerry-built computer program made up of dozens of specialized "modules," each honed by hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years of evolution. There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more...
...budget. The Teamsters are taking on nonunion Federal Express and Overnite Transportation, the largest group of unorganized truckers in the nation. Labor watchers say that for the unions to thrive, they need to shift their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel backbone of the old unions is uncertain. "If they can't crack the service...
...centuries ahead of our time. It will enable us to eliminate world illness and suffering instantly and to make society so productive that everyone will enjoy peace and prosperity. On Wall Street the bottom falls out. The Pentium chip might as well be a buggy whip; Windows 98 a manual typewriter. As sky-high tech stocks become worthless, everything follows, and from the elite on Wall Street to the masses in mutual funds, they begin to think maybe, just maybe, they ought not take the deal...