Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teachers in the program adapt the materials and the magazine to their own needs in surprisingly varied ways. American Studies Teacher William Di George of Ewing Township High School, N.J., mounts some 90 TIME covers on his classroom bulletin boards to impart a personal view of current history; for quizzes, he masks the identifications and asks his students to name the subjects and discuss their roles in events. East Hampton, N.Y., Social Studies Teacher Jim Barry has devised a current-events contest in which teams compete for points by answering questions from a given week's issue. Evelyn Robinson...
...once used for accounts payable. In the corner, a tree from last Christmas still stands, a reminder of the unfortunate timing of Lackawanna's death knell. Employees are given a tour of the center in groups of ten or 20 before they are laid off. There is a bulletin board with 500 job listings, most of them technical, as well as 25 desks with telephones. In a corner are references like The National Job Finding Guide...
...novel solutions is to go to the networks. These are the hundreds of systems, many of them formed by amateur enthusiasts, that hook computer users together via telephone lines, permitting their members to exchange information, engage in long-distance debates or just gossip. The networks are in effect electronic bulletin boards. "They are the 20th century equivalent of the coffeeshops of Samuel Johnson's day," Brand has said. "Back then, the intelligentsia got loaded on coffee and tried to impress themselves. We'll get loaded on technology and do the same thing...
...have charged that the Reagan Administration is neglecting AIDS because it primarily affects homosexuals. (In fact, the money allocated to AIDS research so far is greater than the $20 million spent over eight years on toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaire's disease.) Heckler's department also publishes a biweekly bulletin reporting the findings of researchers; next week it will start operating a toll-free hotline (800-342-AIDS) to answer questions about the syndrome...
...other fellows are Nina Bernstein '70 of The Milwaukee Journal, Bruce Butterfield of The Providence Journal Bulletin, D'Veta Colin of United Press International, Jane Daugherly of The Miami Herald Nancy Webb Hatton of The Detroit News, Derrick Jackson of Newsday, Jan Jarboe of the San Antonio Express News, Albert Landler of The Great Falls Tribune, M.R Montgomery of The Boston Globe, Wendy Ross of The Washington Post, and Jacqueline Thomas of the Chicago Sun Times...