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...Gonzo (Premedicus Enthusiastus)--These premeds define their lives by how far they have advanced in the premed sequence. Their strategy is simple: They choose those courses they have taken, and aced, in high school. For those classes they haven't already mastered, they read the entire textbook the previous summer...
...primitive swamplands of the Devonian period or the orgies of the Greek cult of Dionysos, god of wine (which started with the tearing apart of a goat, a bull or a baby), Gonick succeeds in fixing facts more in your mind than even the most exhilirating textbook. And Gonick is able to maintain the historical accuracy of his work, making it one of the most educational comic books ever...
This summer, when Hughes Hallett and experts from other universities rewrote the standard calculus textbook, they gave it a new look with more graphing and problems drawn from various fields...
...work of art." But those are fighting words to the legions of artists, critics and scholars who have devoted the past 20 years to developing a feminist critique of art history. Their efforts have virtually set the agenda for academic discussion and have begun to overturn the standard textbook reading of visual art as an orderly march of styles from cave paintings to postmodernism...
...plumbing his own feelings about having been crippled at age 26. In 1986 he appeared before a 900-student class at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a guest lecturer on the impact of the Vietnam War. Recalls Walter Capps, who initiated the course: "He gave a textbook lecture. It was almost as if he was going for tenure. A woman student complained, 'You haven't told us how you felt.' Kerrey looked at me helplessly but I just stared at the floor. He told the class he couldn't tell them -- he would have to do something...