Word: textbook
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Harvard's 7-2 win yesterday was the perfect pick-me-up after the weariness of finals: an avatar of textbook baseball in which the pitching and the offense combined to throttle the fourth ranked team in the country...
...Wisdom of the Body (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95), Yale's distinguished surgeon and bioethicist presents a kind of prequel: an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book--part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation--that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not religious in a formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, "We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws...
...BOOKS . . . THE WISDOM OF THE BODY: The new book (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95) by Yale?s distinguished surgeon and bioethicist Sherwin B. Nuland presents an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book -- part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation -- that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not a religious man in any formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body...
...fact, all true learning is so accomplished, since learning only comes with understanding. We are no longer youth, so we gain nothing by mere mimicry, which not incidentally is the process induced by such things as Core final exams. Truth is not something to be copied from a textbook or taken from a teaching fellow. Rather, truth is found through the personalization of work...
...much for the E-mail revolution, which is now enslaving the desk jockeys it was supposed to free, creating communications problems (of all things) so new that they cannot be found in the pages of any management textbook. E-mail has warped corporate cultures and created variant strains of bosses who make E-mail the terror weapon of choice to subdue underlings and subvert rivals. E-mail has wasted years of executive time and gigabytes of computer memory covering corporate backsides or looking for lost keys...