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...EPOS, launched Helping Involve Parents (HIP), an interactive program that allows parents and teachers to form their own communications network via the telephone or Internet. It's now used by 34,000 students and parents in 29 schools throughout New York City. The software program allows parents to view homework assignments, class schedules and student performance. Through HIP notification, parents are able to get instant feedback on student absenteeism and grades. HIP bridges the digital divide by allowing parents to use the system even if they don't have a computer. The software translates computer text to audible voice messages...
...reported having happier holidays when they instituted environmentally friendly practices like using a live Christmas tree or eliminating wrapping paper. Bill McKibben, author of Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyful Christmas, suggests making presents or giving the gift of time, offering to help a sibling with homework or to pay for ballet lessons...
...wedding--and enough one-liners and physical business to keep his fans happy. But he's also paying tribute to his family, especially his jazz-loving father (who produced concerts by such greats as Billie Holiday), and working out some unresolved guilt (over the fight they had about chemistry homework the night his father died). Written in part with Alan Zweibel and directed by Des McAnuff, 700 Sundays doesn't escape sentimentality and is too long. But Crystal has rubbed out the line between stand-up and self-revelation. And all by yourself on Broadway, that's a gutsy thing...
...WAKING LIFE: E-mail, laundry and homework all beckon, so who has time for sleep...
...many of my nearest and dearest have found that this year has translated into more problem sets, more essays, more books. I have a literature concentrator friend taking three languages because she thinks it’s cool, and it is. But coolness comes with a price: doing homework and functioning in three languages. I’m taking a class whose reading list is 12 novels. That is, with some adjusting for Penguin vs. Norton editions, approximately 3,426 pages, or War and Peace times two and a half. I have enjoyed every single one of them?...