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...same multimedia format used for instruction. In addition, students are being primed for the world of the Internet by taking part in the school's own E-mail and bulletin-board system. They log onto the Dalton Network from home or at school to ``chat'' with friends, confer with teachers or join online discussions of movies and records. The most remarkable feature of the system, however, is the ``conferences'' -- discussion groups associated with certain courses. This year's most popular spins off a senior-class seminar in civil rights. Not only do all 17 students in the class participate...
...Harvard proceeds to recognize the HCIA, it might find it difficult to evict the group if they violate University guidelines. It might be hard for the administration to find positive evidence necessary for such action. At the same time, University recognition will confer a legitimacy on the BCC's activities. They will be able to poster on campus, receive Undergraduate Council funds, and have access to University facilities and tabling at registration. And they will likely continue to use coercion and deception on potential recruits...
...Council also discussed a resolution which would ask City Manager Robert W. Healy to confer with Continetal Cablevision officials in an effort to develop a online complaint system...
While a comparable rise of that sex hormone in males may sound attractive to older men, it apparently would not confer all of the benefits enjoyed by the elders in Cocoon. Both proponents and naysayers agree that DHEA does not enhance sexual desire or performance...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...