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...White, 13, began seventh grade last week. But he did not get on a yellow bus to travel the five miles to the Western Middle School near Kokomo, Ind. For Ryan, classroom is his bedroom, where he tries to hear teachers and speak to fellow pupils via a telephone hookup. Ryan is a hemophiliac who contracted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome last winter through a blood transfusion. Although Indiana state health officials say that students with AIDS can attend school as long as their condition does not threaten others, District Superintendent of Schools J.O. Smith decided to bar Ryan from classrooms, calling...
...Gumbel, sitting in semidarkness and encircled by a cloud of bugs, spent much of his on-air time introducing taped segments. Koppel's interview with Tho illustrated the perils of live TV: the Vietnamese official was able to ramble on because Koppel was plagued by a faulty communications hookup and could not break into the harangue...
...sell corporate America on a new product line called the Macintosh Office. The core is AppleTalk, a system that will allow businesses to link as many as 32 Macintosh computers into an office network. Previously the Mac was basically a stand-alone machine. AppleTalk will cost just $50 per hookup, while connections in other computer networks can cost as much as $1,000. A key accessory will be the LaserWriter (price: $6,995), which can produce high-definition print-outs of charts and text...
Harvard's next four games constitute the hardest part of its schedule. And Wednesday's hookup with Boston College (7:30, Briggs Athletic Center) promises to be the toughest of the year...
...also took the chance to show that he was miffed about his treatment on a televised "mini-debate" with his Democratic challenger Lt. Gov. John F. Kerry last night. In the debate on WNEV-TV, Kerry sat in the studio with the moderator while Shamie responded via a TV hookup at the Copley Place Hotel...