Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numerous doors left unopened began to multiply in my mind until they formed themselves into a mental list. Somewhat sheepishly mentioning my "list" to a friend, I was surprised when she grinned and yanked out of her bag a piece of spiral notebook paper on which she had scrawled all the movies she plans to see before graduation. Another friend produced a typewritten document of all the places he plans to go before he leaves fair Harvard...
Inside the framework, TIME has added sections (Essay, Behavior, Notebook) and dropped sections (Crime, Animals, Aeronautics), gone from postage-stamp head shots in its early news columns to full-page color displays in which photography and imaginative graphics play a larger part. Amid the proliferation of other sources--including all-news radio and television, national editions of daily newspapers and now the Internet--the magazine has evolved into a mix of news and features that play off the news instead of simply recapping it. The Essay section and signed columns have added stronger, more personal voices to the magazine. Cultural...
...Cuban, an authority on the history of technology in American education: "Anyone who tells you computers are more effective than anything else is either dumb or lying." Better technology doesn't necessarily make kids better students; good teachers and smart curriculums do. "Laptops are like the new electronic tablet notebook--they have good potential as a writing tool and a place to store information," says Allen Glenn, dean of the University of Washington's education school. "But as far as how you really integrate laptops into actual lessons, in a way that will help students understand their problems, that...
...best place to be during shopping period. More than professors, more than CUE Guide numbers, it is the books that matter. Every shopping period I devote an hour to wandering the aisles, taking down course numbers with interesting books and then seeing if they fit into my schedule. Notebook in hand, I start in African-American studies and end in Social Analysis, trying not to miss this semester's sleeper hit. Last week, I came away with something more important...
...night before exams begin. I double-check my watch, drop my pen on my desk and slam the notebook closed. I pop the soundtrack to Hair into my roommate's CD player as he picks up his things and leaves for the library. I call my friend O., who has agreed to help me out. She's not home, so I assume that she's on her way already, and I leave the door unlocked. Kicking off my shoes, I fast-forward to track 20 on the Hair CD ("Be-In") and unzip my jeans. When O. Walks...