Word: primers
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...jargon used in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (known for short as SALT). Although the vocabulary is impenetrable, except to think-tank experts, and the concepts are often Strangelovean, the complex SALT negotiations may yet turn out to be the most important of the century. Herewith a primer of key questions and answers...
...Spanish might be written if it were English; the result sounds like Ricardo Montalban reading aloud from the works of Ernest Hemingway. By inserting (for flavor) so many Spanish words and (for sense) their English translations, Day sets up a rhythm with all the verve of a language primer. Characters talk as if they were constantly flipping back to the glossary to check their meanings...
...itself to unleavened texts that sell a few thousand copies each, but three years ago it brought forth a cheerful magazine-sized volume called The Jewish Catalog. Modeled after the countercultural Whole Earth Catalog, with a breezy text embellished by sprightly cartoons, the work was a do-it-yourself primer on Jewish customs and religious practices. It also turned into a runaway bestseller, currently in its tenth printing, with nearly 200,000 copies sold at $5.50. Inevitably, readers poured in new ideas. Inevitably, there had to be a sequel...
...wool). Just how to accomplish such a major switch in industrial direction Commoner did not say and of course not much of what he hoped for came about. Now he is trying to close the circle in a different way. The Poverty of Power is a closely reasoned, adult primer on energy, examined in relation to several laws of science and economics. First are the laws of thermodynamics, which he uses to prove that fully 85% of the work potential in the nation's oil, coal and uranium is wasted. Commoner shows how the environment is harmed...
...team of researchers began by synthesizing a single strand of DNA. They then used an enzyme to add a complementary second strand, forming a complete gene. A "hook" of DNA material at the end of the first strand served as a "primer," or base for the enzyme activity, Fotis C. Kafatos, professor of Biology and one member of the team, said yesterday...