Word: textbook
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...seem slim, however, though he could be chosen if Hanoi decided that an international reputation were required. Before joining Ho in China in 1940, Giap studied and taught law, politics and French military history. "He could draw every battle plan of Napoleon," a pupil recalled. In his guerrilla textbook, People's War, People's Army, Giap stresses mobility and cautious avoidance of enemy units capable of hitting back. Yet in 1951 he narrowly escaped dismissal after a disastrous campaign against superior French forces, and against U.S. forces he has frequently accepted appalling casualties for little military gain...
...Eugene P. Odum, 55, of the University of Georgia, is a specialist on estuarine marshes and author of the standard college textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology. "We have got to stop thinking of ourselves as being in the growth stage of civilization and realize that we are in the mature stage," says Odum. "Up to now we have been a consumptive, destructive civilization. We must now learn to recycle and reuse." Under his direction, the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology is studying how tidewater marshes help to produce 90% of the country's seafood...
...Textbook Case. Porphyria was unknown in clinical jargon before the 20th century, and is still not fully understood. It is a group of diseases with many different signs and symptoms. "In some of them the only problem is the undue sensitivity of the skin to sunlight," wrote Professor Abe Goldberg of Glasgow's Western Infirmary in 1966. In others, "the normal life of the patient may be shattered by devastating attacks of abdominal pain, paralysis of limbs, and profound mental upset...
George Ill's illness, say Macalpine and Hunter, reads "like a textbook case," His first severe attack occurred in 1788, when he was 50 years old, and lasted for seven months. Starting with acute abdominal pain, weakness of the limbs and the classic discolored urine, his symptoms progressed through insomnia, headache and restlessness to delirium, convulsions and stupor. Even after his condition improved, George suffered periods during which his doctors said "wrong ideas" took hold of him. In 1810, he became so ill that he was incapacitated for the rest of his life, and his son, as Prince Regent...
...indulgent innocence is something a lot of writers and directors have been trying to make into a picture for a while now. It could have been portrayed in a more complete, but not in a more classic way. If you know what I mean, Mercy Humppe is the textbook study...