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Another common complaint was that the course has no textbook and it would seem that the class has a rather narrow scope. Professor Schreiber proceeded to explain where the class is going--what is intrinsically special and interesting about each individual, and seeming about each individual, and seemingly esoteric, protein we will be studying the next few lectures, and how they all fit into the larger picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chemistry Professor Takes Interest in Learning Process | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Neanderthal Mystery | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

What happened next is a textbook illustration of how people can manipulate the media and why journalists must do their own homework before giving extended airtime to uncorroborated allegations. According to a source familiar with the case, the plaintiff's lawyer had rushed to file the suit in hopes of having it included in an imminent CNN special on priests and sex. Indeed, plaintiff Steven Cook, 35, had been made available for an exclusive CNN interview. Sure enough, when the suit was filed the next day, Nov. 12, CNN aired the interview with Cook, who said he had repressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Public Eye Full of Grace | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: America's Overcrowded Prisons | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

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