Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Actor and model Halle Berry entertained a lively soldout audience Saturday as guest of honor and host of the Harvard Foundation's 13th annual Cultural Rhythms show in Sanders Theatre...
...World Model United Nations (WMUN) shiftsthe burden, drawing on fees paid by participantsto fund the conferences it organizes...
...classrooms. Superintendent Anthony Amato predicts that laptop computers will be on most American students' desks within five years. "I'd put my reputation on it in a minute," he effuses. Since last year, Amato has fielded "calls from superintendents across the country" who want to replicate his district's model...
...than $5 billion this year on high-tech gadgets and training, and many educators think laptops rank among the most promising classroom gadgets. For one, they can be used by students in any class, at any time of day--a significant improvement, experts say, over the prevalent computer-lab model, where students spend an hour a week "learning computers" in a room full of desktops. Unlike clunky desktop machines, laptops are compact and portable, facilitating group work and field research. Knowing that all kids will have computers with them at home, teachers say, gives them flexibility in assigning homework; many...
...like the Titanic, both the movie and the ship. In other words, it's a grand, old-fashioned blockbuster that stirs you in some primal, half-forgotten place, however vigilant your defenses, throwing up simple human images of panic and delight and loss; and a huge, showy, zillion-dollar model of the family of man that, for all its state-of-the-art grandeur and planning, cannot outswerve a block of ice. It shouldn't work, but it does; things should work, but they don't. As the surprise U.S. silver medalist in the doubles luge, Chris Thorpe, said...