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...Bringing Learning Environments to Students) have rolled into five U.S. pediatric centers --in Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Md.; New Haven, Conn.; Miami; and Chicago. The robots, created by Toronto-based Telbotics, work in pairs. One with a 15-in. LCD screen for a face goes to school in the absent child's place. The other remains in the hospital, transmitting an image of the child's face to the classroom. Using a video-game-style controller, the child can direct the school robot to raise its hand to ask a question or swivel its head to follow the teacher. Scanning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Ate My Homework | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Botterill will be seeing her first action this season against No. 10 Princeton (15-7-2, 8-4-0 ECAC) on Friday and Yale (8-15-2, 4-8-0) on Saturday. She was absent for a Canadian national team camp when the No. 1 Crimson defeated Yale, 6-0, and Princeton, 5-2, in early January...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Botterill Set to Break D-1 Scoring Record | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

...quagmire. Jets from a nearby NATO base weren't supposed to come screaming overhead all the time, but they did, making it impossible to record sound. Above all, Gilliam's Don Quixote, the French actor Jean Rochefort, was not supposed to get sick, but he did. Mostly he was absent. When he was present, he could not sit on a horse without highly visible pain. Stubbornly, Gilliam would not consider replacing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Terry Gilliam: Wilting at Windmills | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...addition, Gina Kingsbury, the team’s top scorer per game, and junior goaltender Rachel Barrie were absent last week for a Canadian National Under-22 team tournament, leaving the Saints with only three days to prepare for the weekend...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weekend at St. Lawrence Looms for No. 1 W. Hockey | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

Unlike the protest of last spring, the university police were conspicuously absent when the group of protesters at 9 a.m. yesterday. Robert Himmal, B.U. chaplain was the only representative from the university there. He greeted the students and passed out choir rehearsal schedule for the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Protesters Begin Hunger Strike In Effort to Stop Military Recruitment | 2/8/2003 | See Source »

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