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Local political leaders are concerned about the oil companies' priorities. "I'd like to see them use the best available technology to prevent major spills like [this one]," says North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta. "That's not happening right...
...number of college professors are using film, audio clips and PowerPoint presentations to play to their students' strengths and capture their evanescent attention. It's a powerful way to teach history, says Koonz. "I love bringing media into the classroom, to be able to go to the website for Edward R. Murrow and hear his voice as he walked with the liberators of Buchenwald." Another adjustment to teaching Generation M: professors are assigning fewer full-length books and more excerpts and articles. (Koonz, however, was stunned when a student matter-of-factly informed her, "We don't read whole books...
...absence of rules, it's all too easy for kids to wander into unwholesome neighborhoods on the Net and get caught up in the compulsive behavior that psychiatrist Edward Hallowell dubs "screen-sucking" in his new book, CrazyBusy. Patricia Wallace, a techno-psychologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program, believes part of the allure of e-mail--for adults as well as teens--is similar to that of a slot machine. "You have intermittent, variable reinforcement," she explains. "You are not sure you are going to get a reward every time or how often you will...
...amendment to reduce cuts to the higher education budget and increase student aid floundered in the Senate on Tuesday. Senators Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Susan M. Collins (D-Maine) proposed an amendment that would provide an additional $6.3 billion to the discretionary spending for education. The increase in funding would have gone towards raising Pell Grants from $4,050 to $4,500 and restoring programs including the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) and Perkins Loans, both of which were eliminated...
...Since then I’ve tried almost every staff position, except light design, because I’m color-blind, and technical direction, because I’m petrified of the table-saw.”Dorin first tackled the role of director last year, with Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” He describes his first experience directing as a challenge because of the extreme time constraint he and his staff faced. “My co-director Rebecca L. Eshbaugh ’07 and I only had fourteen days...