Word 97 Annoyances By Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, T.J. Lee
January 1900
Pages: 353

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal on the cover of Word 97 Annoyances is an opossum. There are 76 species of opossum, living throughout South America and much of North America. Opossums are marsupials, but unlike all other marsupials in several ways. First, they are the only marsupials who live outside of Australia and the surrounding islands. Second, opossums typically give birth to large litters-8-24 young, of which only 1/2 live to adulthood. (Other marsupials generally have very small litters.) Some species of opossum are even pouchless. In these species, the mother carries the young between her legs or on her back until they fully develop. Like other marsupials, opos sums are not fully developed when they are born. They resemble worms more than mammals, and weigh as little as 1/8 of a gram.

Ecologically, the biggest difference between opossums and Australian marsupials is that, while koala, kangaroo, and wallabee populations are decreasing, opossums are growing in number and extending their range. One possible reason for this is that opossums have few natural enemies. Opossum meat apparently tastes unappealing to other animals, although it is used in traditional dishes in some parts of the American South. ... Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font.

The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman and Nancy Priest and implemented in FrameMaker 5.0 by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 by Robert Romano. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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