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When the first 2,400 Macs arrived at Drexel in February 1984 and were distributed to freshmen and faculty, university officials noticed an immediate, if unanticipated, result: rather than studying for their upcoming exams, many of Drexel's 13,000 students were "Mac-ing around." Says Steve Weintraut, president of the campus computer users' group: "Everybody just barely made it through finals...
...Secretary indicated his department would use its regulatory authority to help local schools with their own flexible instruction systems, and intended to urge Congress to remove the present 4% limit on federal aid for alternate teaching methods that emphasize English. But at first blush, Congress was not buy- ing. Gus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, seemed downright offended: "Congress worked hard last year to draft what we consider a good bilingual-education bill," he said, adding, "We fear Mr. Bennett's real intent is to gut the bilingual program over the long...
...told his tale at a pace just a little fizzier than the merely lifelike, encouraged his cameraman Michael Ballhaus to light it one notch brighter than reality, one notch darker than fantasy. His splendid actors never pause to explain their strange behavior. The result is a delirious and challeng- ing comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown...
...statistics add up to a horrify- ing equation. In America today, a white female has 1 chance in 606 of becoming a murder victim. A white male has 1 chance in 186. A black female has 1 chance in 124. A black male has 1 chance...
...West German government, but the others may have done considerable damage as well. Richter, who was already under surveillance by Tiedge's department, is thought to have worked as a control for other East German agents. One of those may have been Betzing. A onetime air-condition- ing repairman at the government's secret wartime operations bunker in the Ahr valley near Bonn, he would have had access to the layout and operations of the facility...