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...make the medium as handy as paperbacks. For as little as $2.95 a day, RENTABETA provides a playback unit that weighs 15 lbs. and comes in an indestructible plastic case. About 500 video stores in three Western states are currently renting the 3,000 available units. They also instruct customers about connecting the RENTABETAS to their home sets ("It's just two little wires...
Even as Britain and Argentina stiffened their resolve, efforts continued to find a diplomatic solution. At the U.N., the Security Council voted after lengthy debate to instruct Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar to "negotiate mutually acceptable terms for a ceasefire" between London and Buenos Aires. He was given a week to try to achieve this impossible task before reporting back to the council...
...instruct very young children, even Kemeny's BASIC is much too mathematical. Instead, more and more schools are turning to an innovative computer language called LOGO (from the Greek word for reason), developed by Seymour Papert and his colleagues at M.I.T. A mathematician who studied with the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, Papert has become something of a guru of the computer generation, predicting that the machines will revolutionize learning by taking much of the mystery out of mathematics, science and technology. Says he: "The computer can make the most abstract things concrete...
Kiely, who has taught several popular undergraduate courses in contemporary and Victorian fiction, was invited by the University of Sichuan to instruct English-speaking Chinese teachers and professors in the history and literature of England and America...
...full forces of a large company in a small hall." Consequently, they are unlikely to find their way into the repertory of the change-resistant and cost-conscious international houses. More likely, they will be performed by smaller companies and at festivals, brought out on special occasions to instruct and delight. "They are never going to run Mozart's Figaro out of existence," says Landon. "They are not the meal, but the sugarplums after the meal." But as such, he believes, "they are going to have a life of their own. As long as there are opera houses...