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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some public school administrators are concerned, however, that the new technology will erode their control. Principals have little leverage over teachers who live hundreds of miles away and do not teach exclusively in one district. Adolescent daydreaming carries less of a penalty when students know they can view a lesson on tape. "We don't play the typical games," says David Benke, who teaches computer science to pupils from San Isidro, Texas, and Prescott, Iowa. "You've got to have a student who really wants to learn...
...Soviet Union informing on one's fellow man was taken so far that Pavlik Morozov became a national hero for ratting on his father. And all across the socialist world workers were repeatedly assured that they need not fear -- that no matter how little they worked, no one would live better than they...
...People can't figure out why we're out here and why we aren't bored," says Gerry Bloomquist, enjoying the sunset with her neighbor Mary Lueth. Back home in Minnesota, the Bloomquists and Lueths live an hour apart; here in the desert they live at either end of a laundry line. "Oops, there's our noise for the day," cracks Gerry, looking up at four Army helicopters...
After most of the golden oldsters have departed, the handful of permanent residents settle down for the summer heat. "This is one of the hottest places in the States," says Johnny Braswell, owner of La Casa Del Rancho restaurant, "but you learn to live with it." Braswell and his wife Betty have lived here for 17 years and raised six kids, packing them off to school in nearby towns. In a community where no one is in charge, Braswell takes it upon himself to maintain the big Q sign on Q mountain. "A while ago, I filled my pickup with...
Married to celebrity reporter Claudia Cohen, a contributor to the chatty Live with Regis and Kathie Lee morning show, Perelman appears at his share of gala events but refuses to grant interviews. His only known hobbies are hunting acquisitions and smoking cigars -- made, naturally, by Consolidated Cigars, a company he used to own. Last year he burst into the headlines by leading a $315 million takeover of five ailing Texas thrifts. The Federal Government sweetened the deal by providing $900 million in tax breaks...