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There have been setbacks. Words and images on the oversize computer screens installed in the lecture halls were too dim to be seen with room lights on. When the lights were lowered, students could not take notes. Some of the more elaborate simulations created for physics and statistics proved to be more trouble than they were worth. And a few holdouts among the students and faculty are still using their unopened computer cartons as lamp tables, including one professor who says he will never use a machine that he cannot understand...
...blended into magically extended evenings; weekends were spent at the beach and at barbeques. Spontaneity was the key and idle recreation the goal. But now, as the first nipping chill of winter creeps into the air, and mid-terms rear their ugly heads, those sweet memories become obscured, made dim and vague by the pressing realities of fall term...
After a year and a half hiatus, the Ha' Penny pub reopened last Friday with the same low-ceiling, dim lights, stained-glass windows and assorted regulars that the pub has drawn since...
...Suroit, which had been sounding the water since June 28. The French ship had picked up an important echo that was probably associated with the Titanic. Armed with that information, Knorr scientists decided to deploy Argo at that spot. In less than a week, the researchers received the first dim video images of the Titanic that they had been praying for. "We went smack-dab over a gorgeous boiler," crowed Ballard to the Canadian television network CTV. "It was just bang, there we were...
...causes. He is now a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University. "My father loved this country from the moment he set foot on this land. He loved the sense of freedom. I remember being completely frustrated by trying to hit a baseball. My memories of Scotland are dim, but in the past 15 years I reached the conclusion that their society is more civil than ours. I think we're less caring about each other than we once were...