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...Menominee (pop. 10,000), a manufacturing town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 2,400 high school students must share just three Apple computers. Downstate in Ovid, teachers at the town's elementary school had to hook their only computer to a television set because they could not afford the standard video monitor. "We have a sense of panic," says Principal Tom Van Deventer. "A year ago, a computer was a luxury. Now it is a necessity." But there are competing necessities. In New Orleans, where fewer than 7% of the schools have computer classes, one school district administrator...
...have exacerbated this problem by losing sight of the initial reason for emphasizing Caesarians that virtually all one on one patient doctor confrontations can be dismissed thy a defensive hospitals as clashes of personality, but statistics are harder to ignore. The Caesarian question then was intended primarily as a "hook" for other less quantifiable complaints. But UHS has had a simple reply to their statistics that they don't check out Dr. Warren E.C. Waeker responds in a wide variety of ways, which all point to some problems with the numbers. He has variously said the figures cover too short...
...Nash to deliver the goods. On Marshall Crenshaw, every last track could easily put most of the FM top forty to shame. Eleven perfect singles are served up, each one seemingly stronger than its predecessor. Furthermore, Crenshaw's melodies are hopelessly addictive; they're just short enough to hook the listener but not entirely satisfy him. Back in the '60s, John Lennon and Paul McCartney made a career of just such tactics...
...called Shorris theory "garbage." Not surprisingly. Podhoretz is one of the six figures Shorris names in the book as the "half dozen middle-aged former leftists who led the garrulous conversion" to neoconservatism. The others are Harvard professors Nathan Glazer and Daniel Bell. Irving Kristol, Midge Decter, and Sidney Hook Shorris concedes that Bell deserves credit for sacrificing his standing among leading neoconservatives because he would not surrender his Jewish ethics for "vulgarity...
...addition to those two companies, there is also a multitude of other firms offering various programs to hook up offices of the future. Says Industry Analyst Jean Yates in San Francisco: "There are a zillion different networking systems. Every company out there will gladly sell you two." The company that develops the system that becomes the industry-wide standard will clearly have a giant jump on its competitors...