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...clinical environment." All his various extracurricular involvements have taken their toll in "terms of my overall academic performance," Tarver adds, saying that for much of his four years, he went to classes in the morning, labs in the afternoon, and the Yearbook, the GSA or whatever in the evening. Homework was left for late at night...
Students in Professor Barry Singer's Psychology of Sex course at California State University-Long Beach were never too busy to do their homework. And no wonder. There were field trips to nudist colonies, gay bars and swingers' clubs. Singer's pupils could get classroom credit for after-hours experiments: married couples indulging in adultery, for example, or straights having sex with gays. A professor of psychology at the college, Singer required students to analyze and record their experiences in "play books...
...Japanese market. As recently as 1979, U.S. companies controlled some 90% of personal computer sales in Japan. Their market share is now about 20%. Says David Crockett of Dataquest, a California-based firm that monitors the industry: "The U.S. companies don't seem to be doing their homework the way the Japanese are. The Americans feel they know the answers. It's an extremely serious situation." A little more than a decade ago, many U.S. executives in the automobile and consumer electronics industries dismissed the Japanese competition-and then saw their markets begin to slip away...
Paradoxically, the computer passion is often stirred in youngsters who seem least likely to be interested in high tech. Jay Harstad, 12, of Minnetonka, Minn., Utters his house with poems and sketches but will do almost anything to avoid doing his math homework. Yet Jay is one of the Gatewood Elementary School's premier computerniks and regularly helps teachers introduce fourth-graders to the machines. At West High School in Wausau, Wis., Chris Schumann, 16, a junior, has made a name for himself by translating musical notes into digital form and getting a computer to play Bach and Vivaldi...
...jobs and cash income that are generated by a thriving economy. Says he: "The record clearly shows that measures to stimulate G.N.P. and create wealth at the top can do more good for people at the bottom than larger welfare payments. Conservatives just haven't done their homework and publicized the hard fact that trickle-down economics works...