Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem was that House checkers did not know students' residences until after they swiped their cards, unless the checkers explicitly asked...
...really did see a lack of House community in the dining hall because you never knew who [lived] in Adams House," said Clara B. Brillembourg '01. "[Now,] you'll finally get to know who's living in the same House as you, as before you just got to know them by passing in the hall...
...Gates clones. Not so fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools forgot one key element--training the teachers. Education Week magazine has just completed a comprehensive report on technology in schools that shows teachers don't know what to do with all that RAM. Almost 50% don't use computers at all in teaching, and only 61% percent use the Internet. And the educational software that's out there doesn't provide much promise: 70% of high school teachers said finding useful products is nearly impossible...
...time has come for even the most devoted Streisand fans to pack it in. Listening to this loony exercise in self-love is kind of like overhearing two people you know having sex: you really don't want to be there. The package is filled with creamy pictures of Streisand and husband James Brolin--including Streisand in her wedding dress, for God's sake. The disc itself is a sequence of squishy love songs that would embarrass Lionel Richie. Hard to believe that someone who could perpetrate this once had taste. Or sense...
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