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...their students the burden of recopying entire compositions in order to make substantive changes. Also growing in popularity are filing programs and electronic encyclopedias. Scholastic Inc. this year is publishing 15 sets of floppy disks crammed with facts from history, science and language arts. By learning how to cull files for, say, information about major treaties signed by American Indian leaders of the 19th century, students can develop both computer and social-studies skills. Says Walter Koetke, Scholastic's director of technology: "We're responding to the good teachers who say, 'If you want me to use the computer...
...Kremlin's listening post in Cuba, for example, can pick up virtually all traffic from U.S. domestic communication satellites. Says an NSA official: "They just sit down there with their huge vacuum cleaner and suck everything up." In recent years the Soviets have developed computers that can cull such intelligence with much more sophistication than earlier models, and not just in search of defense secrets. "A computer can put together those bits and pieces," says an NSA official. "And even if the vast majority of what was said is unclassified, the other side can put it together and save...
...marginal ones. Columbia eliminated Egyptology, the University of Michigan closed its geography department, and the State University of New York at Albany is phasing out its Ph.D. program in French literature. Duke decided that its education department was not distinguished enough and shut it down. As they sort and cull, most universities are committed to maintaining what they do best. "You don't destroy one of the greatest classics departments in the world because there is not a great demand for Latin teachers," maintains Richard Sutch, chairman of the graduate council at the University of California at Berkeley...
...part of fate's minus pool of mediocrities but a quite decent human being. Ditto the rest of the staff (exemplary actors all) at the Cull-Loomis School of English for Foreigners. Call it cul-de-sac for short. "Teaching foreigners is a job for failures," says one. Still, in a period of four years, life does seep into the arid crevices of their existence. There are births, marriages, deaths, philanderings and conversions...
People who make most of their major purchases from catalogues are often formidably well organized, and have to be. Chicagoan Toni Smith, for example, is an executive recruiter who is constantly on the road. She does all her Christmas shopping in a single day. "I cull out the most interesting catalogues beforehand," says Smith. "Then I do comparison shopping from one to another." From the ease of gift shopping she has learned to buy almost everything she needs by mail...