Word: textbook
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...sections (Sports, Science, Living, Home and, for entertainment, Weekend). The sections have opened the paper to stories far beyond conventional news. Some are obscure; some are refreshing reminders that there are other serious pursuits besides politics. The editorial page has also shifted, under Editor Max Frankel, from fussy, civics-textbook pieties to street-smart candor...
When Texas talks, textbook publishers tend to listen. As one of the largest purchasers of school textbooks ($65 million this year), the state has regularly exerted a strong influence on the content of books used by schools across the country. After the Texas board of education accommodated Fundamentalist Christians in 1974 by requiring that evolution be taught as "only one of several explanations" of the origins of mankind, some publishers began to alter their texts to make them more widely acceptable. For instance, in the 1981 high school biology book published by Laidlaw Bros., a division of Doubleday, the word...
Increasingly, the lives of young near-victims of drowning in frigid water are being saved by techniques perfected over the past decade. Jimmy's is almost a textbook example: fire-department paramedics at the scene of the accident immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, fluids and drugs were given intravenously, and air was blown into his lungs repeatedly. At Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, an emergency team labored over Jimmy for three hours. They used electric shock five times to restart his heart, put him on a respirator, and with heat lamps slowly warmed his body...
...candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground. "I've been winning most of the top sections," he said later, referring to unofficial split times, "so I was real smooth the first three or four turns. Then I came...
...perfect the complex machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel puffs of nitrogen gas. When McCandless fired jets on one side of the MMU, they provided a textbook example of Newton's third law ("For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"): the astronaut was propelled the other...