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...asleep whenever the situation permits it. The first skill isn't that difficult to learn--you just have to train yourself to wake up when you hear a change. If the professor drones on, stay on cloud nine; but if he or she stops talking to write on the blackboard, or if you hear notebooks being opened or pens clicking as the poor awake listeners begin to take notes again--now it's time to rouse yourself. Also, this can prevent the embarrassing situation of remaining asleep after everyone has left the classroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Sleep in Class | 10/12/1996 | See Source »

DIED. PANDRO BERMAN, 91, prolific Hollywood producer who, from the 1930s through the 1960s, oversaw such film classics as several Astaire-Rogers musicals, Morning Glory, Of Human Bondage, Gunga Din, The Blackboard Jungle and Butterfield 8; in Beverly Hills, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...help you out, Rob Hyman: the wind has been blowing pretty strong lately and posters tend to fly loose. And sometimes when professors use the blackboard during lecture they like to erase whatever is on it. Now stop wasting my time...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: Bakal For U.C. President | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

...scene resembles that in many a law-school classroom: two dozen earnest third-year students in jeans and flannel shirts sit at desks, their notebooks open in front of them. Behind the podium where assistant professor Lynne Marie Kohm stands, a sign on the blackboard advertises a bar-exam cram course. But the discussion of the topic at hand, divorce, is not limited to the standard legalisms of family law-custody, property, visitation. Instead, the students here at the Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, return, again and again, to the spiritual consequences for parents and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONWARD CHRISTIAN LAWYERS | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

Bevel drew a triangle on the blackboard in the Sever Hall classroom in which he spoke, splitting it in half with a wavy line...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Priest Discusses Oppression | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

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