Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soon, the group decided to print up the information for distribution to area women who had heard about the project and were asking for their own copies of the information. Printed on flimsy newsprint and sold for forty cents, the first copy of the now-ubiquitous women's health manual Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book By and For Women was born...
...book was not simply a convenient reference manual. In many ways, it represented the beginning of a revolution in women's health. In contrast to an atmosphere in medicine in which diseases such as breast cancer were kept a secret, research was often based on the bodies of men and doctors often did not expect that women could be partners in their health care decisions, the book has enabled countless women to become proactive in determining the direction of their health care. It has encouraged them to truly make the demand for recognition of their personal health needs into...
...record from the Louisville, Kentucky, school system, where Wigand now teaches science and Japanese. The investigators may have thought they would turn Wigand's fellow educators against him. They were wrong. "Not all of us agree with what [Wigand] is doing," says Barbara Fendley, who supervises Wigand at DuPont Manual High School and is married to a tobacco farmer. "But we all support his right to do what he thinks is right. We're bigger than Brown & Williamson...
...Minutes last month as he offered up potentially devastating inside information about the machinations of his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson. Then there is the somewhat antic teacher his high school students know and love. One day recently he was darting about the dingy science classroom at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, like a gnome on triple espresso, questioning and wisecracking in his rapid-fire Bronx rasp as 30 ninth-grade advanced physical-science students went over results of field research. DuPont principal Beverly Keepers remembers walking in one time on Wigand, who holds a Ph.D...
With Pat Buchanan sucking up all the available oxygen on social issues, the President made a grab for two last week--issuing a six-page manual urging public schools to adopt uniforms, and shaming network execs into labeling their programs. As a child in parochial school, I loved the savings in time and fashion anxiety a uniform made possible. The first candidate to issue a similar manual for adults gets my vote. There is a downside: offending not only the A.C.L.U. but also parents who think a $100 Polo sweater makes up for being distracted. Some teachers say it doesn...