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...Geography of South America course for my science credit my senior year. I was agitated. The science credit was mandatory and I had waited too long, but his was the most noted "gut" course in the curriculum: His final exam was invariably based on five books on this reading list. If you read those, you were home free. I had other things to do that spring and I didn't go to any classes. I read the five books and sure enough, with a great sigh of relief I saw that the questions were all related to my reading...
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Shandling held his own with these two. There is an episode in which a staff member runs down a list of possible guest hosts while another keeps responding, "Threatens Larry...Threatens Larry," and Shandling's slightly wide-eyed expression (more pronounced in a face that seems to carry three extra layers of flesh) perfectly conveys the sense that Larry is always threatened--by the chance his girlfriend Illeanna Douglas will make a bad guest or that George Segal will be booked again...
...wants to haggle in a dealer's high-pressure showroom when you can take the pick of the lot in cyberspace? Some 2 million online shoppers--an estimated 15% of all new-car buyers--are flocking to a lengthening list of auto websites to compare makes and models, scout out the best insurance rates and find the nearest dealer with the car in stock. This week autoconnect.com a giant virtual warehouse for used cars, joins a growing pack that includes autobytel.com autoweb.com and Microsoft's carpoint.com...
Still, imagine a well-run, serious school with an Internet hookup in the library for occasional use by students under supervision who are working on research projects; would that be so bad? No. Though it ranks around 944th on my list of important school improvements, it's not bad. But in reality, too many schools will use the Internet the same way they use computers themselves: to entertain children at minimal cost to teachers. If children are turned loose to surf, then Internet in the schools won't be a minor educational improvement, it will be a major disaster. Another...