Word: textbooks
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...Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned 40 copies of Values Clarifications, a textbook, as a show of support for a school board that decided to ban both written matter and independent-minded teachers from its system. Said William I. Chapel, a member of that board: "The bottom line is: Who will control the minds of the students...
WILSON's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis is a scientific textbook. It is technical, detailed and precise, packed with specific examples of insect and animal behavior. As an ambitious comparative and evolutionary study, it received almost universal acclaim as a significant contribution to biological science. The neophyte will see no cause for argument about Wilson's project--at first glance the book seems to hold no ethical or political point of view. Wilson steers clear of rhetoric. When discussing a potentially controversial subject such as religious belief, he neither defends the value of faith nor criticizes its conflict with scientific evidence...
Although they closed the gap to two several times in the last few minutes, the hoopsters could never even the score. Each time Harvard made a bid, the Wildcats dug in with textbook ball control. Martha Morrison, who frustrated Crimson defenders all night with beautiful passing and 16 points of her own, countered Boutillier's jump shots and kept the game out of Harvard's reach...
...McCarthy, the acrobat in the other cage, overshadowed Whiston. A freshman out of Hingham High who is used to busy nights (he stopped 50 shots against Matignon in the Eastern Mass. schoolboy tournament last March), McCarthy singlehandedly prevented what would have been Harvard's third consecutive win with textbook goaltending under pressure...
Dean Hsieh laughs when I tell him my boss in the textbook sales company still does bai bai. "No one does that anymore," he says. "In some ways, Michael Yang is very old-fashioned...