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Corporate headquarters is a complex of drab brick buildings near an Atlanta airport taxiway. Some of the executive offices have linoleum tile, not a Bigelow, on the floor. The company even boasts of "zero paper-clip attrition" because it strips the clips from incoming mail rather than buying new ones...
With taxes taking a bite out of even the biggest paychecks, more and more companies are offering plush perks to executives in lieu of hard cash. A new generation of status symbols is growing up to replace the old ones, which tended to be corner offices or "a Bigelow on the floor...
Despite the layman's astonishment that the Ed School would now have to be reminding itself to minister to individual schools, experts such as Gerald S. Lesser, Charles Bigelow professor of Education and Developmental Psychology and a member of the group that assisted in the preparation of Barth's report, calmly insist that "there are always a lot of ebbs and flows in educational philosophy. We have never really been disassociated with secondary schools." Ylvisaker adds, "This is not a 180 degree change...We were missing one balancing wire and this...
Gerald S. Lesser, Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology, also has a personal interest in the excursion. Three months ago, a team of Chinese broadcasters visited Lesser and his co-workers at the Children's Television Workshop (the organization that created Sesame Street) to learn about American educational television. Eager to maintain the relationship, Lesser set up meetings with members of the Chinese Central Broadcasting Administration in addition to giving formal lectures...
...Harvard's Nautilus room you can see football captain Steve Potysman grappling with the "Compound Leg" machine, which incidentally runs to a hefty $3,465 in the Nautilus catalogue, while next to him, Natalie Bigelow, a member of the women's basketball team, is outstretched on the DUOsymmetric POLY contractile Hip and Back machine...