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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduates mangage to make it through four years and eight Core classes at Harvard without buying at least one course textbook written by their professor. Frequently more than...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Writing the Text to Fit the Course--and Vice-Versa | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

Nobel laureate Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics, says he is in the process of writing a textbook for Science A-20, "From Alchemy to Elementary Particle Physics," because he is dissatisfied with some of the books he has used in the past...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Writing the Text to Fit the Course--and Vice-Versa | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...difficult thing to keep in tune," he says. "Kind of like a Maserati." Writing a textbook, he says, can help a professor reconcile the two tasks...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Writing the Text to Fit the Course--and Vice-Versa | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...upper-level courses, says Daiute, professors often feel that the area of study is so narrow that only one textbook will do--their...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Writing the Text to Fit the Course--and Vice-Versa | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...Corporate Response to a Disaster. After seven people died from poisoned Tylenol in 1982, Johnson & Johnson Chairman James Burke quickly recalled 31 million bottles of the pain killer and offered a $100,000 reward for the culprit. His frank, decisive response won back customer loyalty, and is now a textbook case in public relations. Least applauded: Exxon's tar- footed response to its desecration of Alaska's shoreline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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