[texhax] Vertical alignment in table containing text and figures

[Henry Law]

(I posted this to comp.text.tex yesterday; I hope there's not too much 
overlap in the readership from there and here.)

As part of a reference book I need to format a series of pictures with 
explanatory text.  I plan to do it using a table of two columns: #1 has 
the text, #2 the image and they divide the line 60:40.

I've used the "array" package for the table and a \parbox for the text.  
I've almost cracked it, except for the vertical alignment. If the 
explanatory text is deeper than the image, I want the image at the top 
of the cell; similarly if the text is brief then I want it too at the 
top of the cell; whereas everything I do comes out with the smaller of 
the two _bottom_ aligned (as shown in 
http://www.lawshouse.org/tex/Alignment.jpg).

Surely this should be easy to do?  It's the default behaviour in WP 
packages like OpenOffice and MS Wierd.  Can someone help me fix my code, 
or else suggest an alternative, sure-fire way of doing it?

My sample file is at http://www.lawshouse.org/tex/array.tex and the 
images it uses are http://www.lawshouse.org/tex/mary-rose.jpg and 
http://www.lawshouse.org/tex/007985029-1.jpg but here's the code (which 
may be wrapped).

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|>{\raggedright}b{0.6\textwidth}|>{\centering}b{0.4\textwidth}|} 

  \hline
  \parbox{0.6\textwidth}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consect wisi enim 
ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit 
lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit 
amet, consectetuer adipiscing veniam} \\
 & \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{mary-rose.jpg} \tabularnewline
  \hline
  \parbox{0.6\textwidth}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consect wisi enim 
ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit 
lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit 
amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod 
tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad 
minim veniam Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, 
sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam 
erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam} \\
  & \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{007985029-1.jpg} \tabularnewline
  \hline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

The images are Copyright © 2009 BBC; I scrounged them for testing.

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Henry Law            Manchester, England