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...beating Japan. Few Quixotes still proclaim that this war is being fought for ideals, and I believe there is no American--Protestant, Catholic, etc.--who is unwilling to welcome any type government into an alliance which will cooperate in preventing future wars. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Lieutenant, U.S.A. Camp Gordon...
Connolly's--where patrons once listened to such greats as Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz--fell one vote short of being named an official landmark by the Boston Landmark Committee...
...students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year and leased to the students for $30 a month. The reports they are about to present are high-speed, full-color Power Point jobs. And when teacher Janice Gordon wants her class's attention, she commands, "Screens at 45[degrees]!" At the end of class, the students will close their laptops, put them in backpacks and take them home...
...other serendipitous ways, laptops have altered the character of schools and their students that use them. At Mott Hall, Gordon says that since receiving their laptops last year, her sixth-graders "have become much more mature and articulate. They use those things the way adults use them." They even volunteer, she says, to do extra homework. Students at the Cincinnati Country Day School have set up round-the-clock tech-help desks in the hallways, assisting schoolmates in fixing crashed hard drives and finding lost files. And no one is more enthusiastic about laptop learning than parents; in communities like...
...classmates, for sure," he says, nodding. At the front of the room, the students take turns projecting reports from their laptops onto a large white screen. A shaft of sunlight streaming through the windows makes the reports look a little faint. "We normally save these for cloudy days," Gordon jokes. Jose's group goes last and offers a presentation on geothermal energy that would impress in a corporate boardroom. When the students finish, their teacher nods approvingly. The class applauds. After a while, you hardly notice the glare...