Word: textbook
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...every case of interethnic conflict one can cite a case of cooperation. Unlike school boards in San Francisco and Berkeley, the Oakland school board rejected Houghton Mifflin textbooks that it considered racist and sexist. Though the local press and the New York Times presented the textbook opponents as raving, politically correct Afrocentrics, one of the most eloquent speeches opposing the textbook adoption was made by a Chinese American...
...textbook give-and-go off of the corner from Co-Captain Kristen Fowler--who had drawn the attention of the Huskies' defense with an earlier blast which had been called back--Francie Walton shuffled the ball to Becky Gaffney, who back-handed the ball into the net, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead with two minutes remaining in the first half...
...half, Harvard's offense showed a glimpse of its explosive potential. Junior Rachael Burke gathered the ball at mid-field, swiftly beat a defender and fed Ambinder a lead pass on the right wing. Ambinder carried into the circle and shuttled the ball across to Downing, who completed the textbook play by scoring her second goal of the game. Downing's tally effectively killed Boston College's hopes and Harvard rolled on to its 3-1 victory...
...Florida has contracted with ABC News and National Geographic to develop multimedia programs on subjects ranging from the environment to the cold war. This fall more than 500,000 Texas schoolchildren began using a videodisc series, Optical Data Corp.'s Windows on Science, in lieu of a standard textbook, as their first formal introduction to science. William Clark, president of Optical Data, argues that the multimedia approach may be necessary to reach children raised on Sesame Street and MTV. Says he: "We have to teach a literacy appropriate to the times we live...
...were ignorant or incautious. The smart ones had a textbook. It was The Joy of Sex, a 1972 how-to "gourmet guide," written in breezy language by British physician Alex Comfort, who persuaded his readers that with a little imagination and a sense of adventure, lovemaking could be more fun than sex. Comfort was widely derided as a flaky guru who took the mystery out of sex by describing it with the exactitude of a cookbook recipe. But he had it right: The Joy of Sex, witty, fanciful and mercifully free of moralizing, sold more than 8 million copies...