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...prefer spending three hours helping a friend set up her new LC III to actually sitting down and writing a column on the Middle East. And I'm probably the only person I know who considers her greatest accomplishment this year to be passing the "Power User Quiz" in MacWorld...
Some critics are not so sure. While conceding that interactive multimedia may prove useful in helping students visualize abstract concepts in physics or math, many fear that the tools of multimedia will turn the traditional educational experience into something more akin to television. Author Steven Levy, writing in Macworld magazine, insists that the ability to express oneself in words and to understand the words of others is essential to the process of thinking. "But multimedia laughs at that objection," he writes, "because multimedia, like television, is designed to entertain, at the cost of thinking...
...angry. This guy looked about as capable of rowing as I did to play rugby for the Romanian Olympic team. He had more likely spent the last half-hour in the locker room reading MacWorld...
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...screen. The strongest emissions, it turns out, are from the sides, the backs and the tops of the monitors, suggesting that users could be at greater risk from their co-workers' machines than from their own. Until the Government sets standards for so-called extremely low frequency (ELF) emissions, Macworld suggests that users keep their monitors at arm's length and position themselves at least twice that distance from their nearest neighbor's machine...