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...background--the sound of hundreds of fingers taking notes via keyboard. "It was painful for me," admits Elissa Krebs, who heads the English Department at Packer. "Inevitably you would just have lines of seventh- and eighth-graders up against the walls with their energy completely focused on their laptops, en masse. It was just so hard to transition to that image, from seeing kids socializing and putting stuff in their lockers and moving from one group to the next." What the Packer population was learning was that once computers are connected, they aren't just how we get information; they...
...dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn't be missed. For classy aperitifs among a crowd of Dublin's young shovers and makers, there is the sprawling, magnificent Café en Seine, tel: (353-1) 677 4567. Decked out like a debauched fantasy of late 19th century Paris, this three-story café-bar features a soaring atrium, 12-m trees and an atmosphere in which Toulouse-Lautrec would have felt right at home. For dinner, head over to Halo...
...going to be stopping anywhere en route, so die-hard smokers may want to stock up on nicotine patches - or use this trip as a head start on quitting. Everyone else, however, should be delighted with the world's longest range passenger jet, the Airbus A340-500. It comes into service for the first time anywhere on Dec. 1, when Emirates airlines takes it on a maiden voyage from Dubai to Sydney. Flying time will be 14 hours, but these tireless behemoths can handle journeys of 17 hours or more, and Emirates has additional plans to deploy its fleet...
...defense is anchored by Kelly Halcisak, the team’s strongest player. Halcisak turned in a tremendous offensive effort from the blueline last season, scoring a personal best 45 points—14 goals, 31 assists—en route to being tabbed as a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier trophy, awarded to the nation’s top player, and named second-team All-American...
...remember the attacks on Sept. 11 itself, aided by nauseatingly glossy, sanitized television documentaries. But should we feel guilty for forgetting it in our everyday lives? Should we be thinking about what TV grandly styled the “Attack on America” while we’re en route to class or driving along the New Jersey Turnpike. Is Sept. 11, 2001 even fair game for a column in October...