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...minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet of intolerance. A typical passage from a sixth-grade history textbook vows that "Arabs and Muslims will succeed, God willing, in beating the Jews and their allies." Even a member of the royal family concedes, "We can't say we didn't know what was going on. People who stood up against it were told to shut up. The government...
...than philosophy did," she explains. Her aim of "meshing science with society" has something of the zeal of the convert. "I'd like to see people attending scientific discussions the way they would go to a concert or the cinema," says Greenfield, who is married to fellow scientist and textbook author Peter Atkins. If anyone can persuade the public to devote their Saturday nights to science, she will. Q&A TIME: How can marijuana "blow the mind"? Greenfield : Drugs interfere with the careful interplay of chemical and electrical impulses between cells, throwing out the balance of the brain either...
...what Jefferson was saying was, 'Hey, you know, we left this England place because it was bogus'") adults, refreshingly, are the intended audience. Thus "U.S. History for Dummies" is able to quote a Richard Nixon Watergate tape in all its four-letter-word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board. "The Civil War for Dummies" even has three chapters for the Civil War tourist that operate under the assumption that the reader is a licensed driver, enumerating the battlefields...
...guerrilla fights the war of the flea," wrote Robert Taber in his 1965 textbook on (and for) guerilla warfare. "And his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantages: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with." Not only that, the guerrillas take shelter in the civilian population, knowing that any "collateral damage" incidents will potentially alienate that civilian population from the guerrillas' enemies...
...central feature of natural systems is self-organization: the interaction of parts shapes and propels the whole. The textbook example of the self-organizing business is eBay. Executives there have limited control over who sells what, but have become skilled at encouraging growth by giving their customers good tools for shopping, communication and payment...