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Interstate '76, a new CD-ROM game from Activision, doesn't exactly recall the most seductive parts of the disco decade, but it does offer a great laugh or two. With the gas crisis still raging, bands of vigilantes (who look suspiciously like the waiting line at Studio 54) are blasting their way around the Southwest. Your mission: to join the pack and stop a rival gang of terrorists. All good fun, but why load up PCs, those most '90s of devices, with this tribute to the '70s? "The future," explains developer Zack Norman, "is boring." Maybe...
...first major product to be created by the partnership is the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, a family health-care manual that will be published in 1998 as both a book and a CD-ROM...
...result is an unparalleled collection of tens of thousands of photographs, many of them strikingly beautiful, that has been distilled into four books (a fifth will be published in 1998, along with a CD-ROM and a documentary film) and several major articles in National Geographic (another will appear in the October issue). Most important to scholars, though, is the fact that Beckwith and Fisher are making the collection available to researchers--a priceless ethnographic archive that will endure no matter what happens to the tribes. Beckwith and Fisher, says art historian Christine Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum...
...come directly from Hans Landesmann, who oversees the festival's symphonic programming. Never mind that BMG's Conifer Classics will issue a September release in the U.S. of The Kaplan Mahler Edition, a double CD that includes Kaplan's best-selling recording of the Resurrection Symphony; the Mahler Piano Rolls; and recollections of Mahler by his contemporaries, as well as a CD-ROM component that features photos from Kaplan's book The Mahler Album...
...Kennedy School of Government uses information technology for similar purposes. According to Peter T. Farago, director of information technology services at the school, some courses use technology to teach cases on CD-ROM in much the same way the HBS does. An Internet-based case was first tried last fall and then used within a larger class this spring, he said...