Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lunch. In the afternoon, such activities as hiking and boating are offered, although most campers head back to the keyboards for marathon sessions that may drag on until lights out. But it is not all work and no play. Says Eugene Galanter, who runs the Summer Computer Institute at Amherst College in Massachusetts: "We also have an occasional break for martinis...
...relaxed setting of a camp helps soothe the anxieties that overwhelm many adults when confronted with a computer. Susan Cooper, co-owner of a New York City messenger service, went to the Amherst institute to catch up with her 14-year-old son John. Back home now in Ridgewood, N.J., she can look with new insight at print-outs of the programs he has written. "Finally, I understand what I was missing," she says. "He had grasped something that had eluded me for years...
...audience with comparisons between Reagan and Coolidge. Both had trouble with Nicaragua (Coolidge sent Marines to keep the peace in 1926 at the request of the Nicaraguan President); both were harder workers than is commonly believed; Reagan was an instant Eureka College campus leader while Coolidge bloomed late at Amherst. Even Amherst's crusty historian, Henry Steele Commager, an ardent fan of F.D.R.'s, had a kind word: "Coolidge's virtues were chiefly negative ones, but then, negative virtues are always preferable to positive vices...
Monica Sanning Amherst, Mass...
...wild, wild West of medicine," says Seth Goldsmith, professor of public health at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of a forthcoming book on Japanese hospitals...