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...elections to be decided on the basis of name recognition and flashy posters. Council members know each candidate first hand from their interactions at meetings. It is their obligation to take the time to read the lengthy position papers and get to know the candidates. Members are therefore more apt to choose a good president than the student body, which has shown mostly apathy toward past elections...
...realize you understand it and then it hits you!'' In the end, adds Thompson, ``they have knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation is an apt metaphor for the kind of ``constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster...
...only last year he moved The Merchant of Venice to Venice, California, just down the beach from Malibu. Always a skillful director of actors and stage movement, Sellars has often seemed capricious in his grand recontextualizations. But in this case, he has created a modern setting that is ingeniously apt and vivid...
Clean your room. This applies as a general rule before going out, as you never know who will come home with you, or in what capacity. The five-CD changer should be loaded with appropriate mood music: a select sampling of jazz is apt, while Nine Inch Nails...
...apt to suppose that Cro-Magnon cave art was rare and exceptional. But wrongly; as New York University anthropologist Randall White points out, more than 200 late-Stone Age caves bearing wall paintings, engravings, bas-relief decorations and sculptures have been found in southwestern Europe alone. Since the discovery of Lascaux in 1940, French archaeologists have been finding an average of a cave a year-and, says professor Denis Vialou of Paris' Institute of Human Paleontology, "there are certainly many, many more to be discovered, and while many might not prove as spectacular as Lascaux or Chauvet...