Word: textbook
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Most notably, she is the co-author of Health Skills for Wellness, a school textbook, the first ever to devote a full chapter to violence prevention...
...Rudolph was in his early teens. Teresa Morgan, 28, who attended school with the Rudolph kids, described them as "very well mannered. Everything was 'yes, ma'am' and 'no, sir.'" Rudolph, she recalls, was so bright and attentive in class that he could pass exams "without ever reading a textbook." He harbored "very extreme views" but was quiet and something of a loner. When other kids would go to a local lake to picnic and swim with family or friends, they would see him there by himself...
...female hockey players and an Indian luger. Now and then, perhaps, a few niceties got lost in translation ("Oh, we beseech you. Heave-ho, heave-ho," was one of the first lines to greet spectators on the scoreboard), but for the most part the ceremonies so conformed to the textbook that even their "image director" was a man whose first name is Man. Elegiacally minded Japanese may have been calling these the last Games of the 20th century, but the efflorescence of young faces suggested they are really the first of the 21st...
...Professor James Kugel's The Bible as it Was and Professor Marjorie Garber's Dog Love prove that Harvard professors have what it takes to get on to the bestseller lists. Meanwhile, rumors are still floating around about the seven-figure advance for economics Professor Gregory Mankiw's Macroeconomics textbook that is being used in several of Harvard's economic classes this tern...
...That was textbook pressure," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-smith said. "I think [my team] was nervous, and I can't say why. We played scared, and we didn't play good team defense...