Word: clocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crush has created a new educational wrinkle: round-the-clock classes. To accommodate immigrants working long shifts, one community school has added classes from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. and from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. "I only get about two hours sleep," says wee-hour Student Jorge Chacon, who left El Salvador in 1974. "But I need to learn English...
...gone on to expose psychics, dowsers, levitators, astrologers and other naive or fraudulent stars of the paranormal world. For example, after a St. Louis parapsychology laboratory claimed to have discovered two boys who could mentally bend spoons, create images on unexposed photographic film and change the position of clock hands, Randi pounced. The precocious wizards, he declared, were in fact skilled amateur magicians. With Randi's connivance, they had been planted in the lab -- which soon lost its funding and closed down. And when a psychic demonstrated on a TV show that he could mentally cause pages of a book...
Students, who occupied the shantyaround-the-clock when it was first built, now useit only as a campus base from which to distributeleaflets, said Nancy L. Fishman, a recent Yalegraduate and member of the university's CoalitionAgainst Apartheid...
Never before had the British Broadcasting Corporation's on-air decorum been so severely tested. Just as Newscasters Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell were about to begin The Six O'Clock News, four women rushed into the London studio. Their aim: to protest legislation prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality...
...flops (CBS Cable; the Satellite News Channel). Today cable networks whose survival once seemed dubious -- from the tony Arts & Entertainment Network to the drony Weather Channel -- have become permanent fixtures. New program services, meanwhile, keep springing up. Among the coming attractions: Show Business Today, a channel of around-the-clock entertainment news, slated to start in January; and a revamped version of Tempo Television, which NBC is planning to buy and reprogram with financial news during the day and sports at night and on weekends...