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...legs, and thrust his head awkwardly forward because his spine prevented him from standing upright. In his scientific papers, Boule described the "brutish appearance of this muscular and clumsy body." This almost simian image persisted largely unchallenged for decades. Indeed, vestiges of it remain today in such manifestations as textbook illustrations, the Alley Oop cartoon strip, and in the pejorative use of "Neanderthal...
...became a perfect target. A grenade exploded into the side of the chopper. "Super six-one is going down," he yelled into his headset, "Six-one is going in." Those would be his last words. The crash of Wolcott's Black Hawk transformed what had been planned as a textbook operation to decapitate Somalia's most powerful warlord into the longest sustained fire fight American soldiers have endured since the Vietnam War. The human costs of that raid, which took the life of 18 Americans and wounded more than 75 others, altered the very nature of the U.S. peacekeeping mission...
...prison for 10 years?" demands her attorney, Robert Campbell III. "What danger is she to society?" Penologists have a ready answer: the danger is that while Drake monopolizes a scarce federal-prison bed, she enables a more dangerous criminal to roam free. To them, Drake's case is a textbook example of the myopia that blinds Americans to the long-term consequences of short-term solutions...
...even with the best of tools, the progress is uneven. DNA, it turns out, is full of surprises. As scientists unravel the secrets of the genome, they are discovering that what they learned from Gregor Mendel is woefully incomplete. The textbook model of inheritance that Mendel found in his garden peas -- in which a trait like the color of a flower is determined by a single gene -- is almost never seen in human DNA. Even a seemingly straightforward characteristic in humans, eye color, for instance, can involve the interaction of several genes. And a complex gene, like the one that...
Steel consumption in recession-racked Western Europe dropped 4% in 1992 and may fall an additional 8% this year, while forecasts through the year 2000 show little growth even after recovery. The steel crisis is a textbook case of mismanaging the decline of a capital-intensive industry. For much of the 1980s, the Commission dictated steel production quotas that kept prices high but also emerged as "a great machine for slowing down the exit of the high- cost producers," says Jonathan Aylen, a senior lecturer at the University of Salford in Britain. Under steel's curious economics, it is sometimes...