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...some students the solution is simple: "We try to get our homework done during the day and go out at night," agree Leslie A Myrow and Nina C. Feldman, from their grassy perches in South Yard...
...other key to Elderhostel's success is that it is stimulating without being too strenuous. Faculty members at host colleges and universities create their own curriculums, and academic difficulty varies accordingly. Required homework is taboo, but elders are often given the regular college syllabus for reading on their own. At Whittier College in California last month, Elderhostelers began their day at 8 a.m. with breakfast followed by a 9 o'clock class called American Politics on Film. A 10:30 class offered hands-on training with Apple computers. Afternoons, everyone hopped into the shallow end of the college...
Users of personal computers are more concerned with a different kind of software: applications programs, which keep the family budget, help with students' homework, play computer games or do financial planning. These programs usually come on a so-called floppy disc, a piece of plastic about the size of a 45-r.p.m. record. They can also be on magnetic tape or a silicon chip inside a cartridge. Sales of applications software for personal computers last year totaled $560 million...
...People back then would stop doing drugs, forget their homework, and come out and participate," recalls Marjorie A. Angell '67-9, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who joined the student protests...
...inescapable conclusion is that Reagan simply isn't all that bright and doesn't do his homework. The number of complex issues the President is faced with is staggering, but simply to farm out the needed thinking to staff members, as Reagan does, is wrong. The President is ultimately responsible and the realization that he is so foggy on the issues, no matter how competent his advisers are, is frightening. How can we have coherent and decisive government when the man in charge is caught in the mist...