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...Health Letter shows the individual the sort of things he should be thinking about his health that he can't get out of Reader's Digest and similar publications," Hutchinson said...
...book, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, is the result of 2½ years of work by Reader's Digest editors and researchers, who acquired many FBI and CIA documents under the Freedom of Information Act and, in addition, covered some 150,000 miles in 26 states and nine nations to interview Oswald's former associates. It was written by Edward Jay Epstein, a careful academic researcher whose 1966 book, Inquest, first revealed the flaws in the Warren Commission's investigation but did not conjure up any wild conspiracy theories...
...where," asked the 15th century French poet François Villon, "are the snows of yesteryear?" Ruth Kirk knows, and in her newly published Snow, she answers not only Villon's question but any others the reader-be he skier, scientist or snowbound suburbanite-may have about the stuff that delights children, often annoys and inconveniences adults, and, to a greater extent than most people are aware, has influenced the course of history and will continue to do so. As Kirk describes, the snows of yesteryear-and the years before that-have been compressed for thousands of years into...
...footnotes and the superscriptions² that heralded them. This simple stroke could save typists and printers everywhere from a common, dizzying dilemma: how to make the damnable text and footnotes count out correctly on each page. The new footnote would simply be a number, in brackets, that refers a reader to the corresponding number in the bibliography. Thi change is not totally revolutionary. Spared are what the author calls "content foot notes,"³ those often pointless little entries at the bottom of the page, in which scholars amuse4 themselves if not others. The author holds these in high regard...
...such young ages. They are full of questions and perceptions which are usually sharper than most people will give them credit for. In one sentence, Coles quotes a young girl who has synthesized her human instincts, with a tidbit from the maid and something "Daddy" said, and the reader is left with an insightful summary of capitalism in its more distressing form. The poor people need the rich to give them jobs and we are obligated to help them, but at the same time, "we are glad that we are not one of them." The words belong to the children...