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...FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting reading, and that is what gets As. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top, "Illustrate;" "Be Specific;" etc? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities...
...Michigan and questioned him repeatedly; he had to go back to Dallas for Ruby's trial; he never found the wife he'd lost. And then in the early '80s, just when his life seemed to have settled down, renewed interest in the J.F.K. case made his name an object of speculation again: it appeared in a book on the organized-crime connections to Ruby and the assassination. His new wife read the book and began to get a little paranoid. She wondered about the serious car accident they had had: Was it really an accident? Eventually, things began...
Meeting this man and becoming the object of his appreciation made me feel wonderful. In fact, many times when I felt the most depressed about being away from Diane for so long with absolutely no control over when I could finally come home, I remembered this Kuwaiti man and why I had come...
...large electronics company has set a higher standard for product design than Apple. The genius of the Macintosh was that it made using a real computer seem like children's fun and games. For the new PowerBook 170, Apple and Lunar Design have done the converse, creating a toylike object (it weighs 6.8 lbs. and has a built-in video-game-style track ball) that has serious power and looks more sexy than wholesome. And it's practical: because notebook computers are often used away from a desk, there are palm-rest surfaces between keyboard and lap to prevent wrist...
...large electronics company has set a higher standard for product design than Apple. The genius of the Macintosh was that it made using a real computer seem like children's fun and games. For the new PowerBook 170, Apple and Lunar Design have done the converse, creating a toylike object (it weighs 6.8 lbs. and has a built-in video-game-style track ball) that has serious power and looks more sexy than wholesome. And it's practical: because notebook computers are often used away from a desk, there are palm-rest surfaces between keyboard and lap to prevent wrist...