Word: occurate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emancipating powers of technology will not do away with the residential university, will they lead to improvements in learning that go beyond mere convenience? It all depends on how students use the time technology saves them. In many cases, however, educational benefits will unquestionably occur. For example, the personal computer has not only enabled our Business School students to avoid drudgery; it has allowed them to grapple with more complicated, realistic problems, using linear programming and other sophisticated analytic techniques not previously reasible for ordinary homework assignments. In the Design School, computer-generated maps and models reduce the time...
This is the critical difference the probably accounts for most of the gains in speed and effectiveness of learning often attributed to computer-assisted learning. It is not necessarily the machines that produce these gains. More likely, the improvements occur because of the increased time and thought that enter into creating the program. Either way students stand to benefit from the result...
...find this a little strange, as I have always heard that American nuclear weapons were for defence only and, if you've been attacked, you would not need to jam communications as the enemy would undoubtedly expect retaliation. Still, I am sure there is an explanation that would not occur to simple souls like...
Sudden illuminations occur throughout the collection. In London, an anti-Viet Nam protest is "something like a medieval carnival in a modern setting, with everybody changing places, the fool becoming king for a day . . . the police merging with the populace and even putting on false beards. But no more than a carnival did it 'solve' anything." Vladimir Nabokov, she notes, treats the Russian language "as a national treasure the usurper Bolsheviks appropriated from him, to turn over to the rabble." She ponders the absence of important fiction in prewar Germany: "Common sense tells you the way things are, rather than...
...York City's subways, the subject of innumerable horror stories, conjure up hellish images in the minds of out-of-towners. But while many crimes occur in the tangle below ground, the 81-year-old, 24-hour-a-day system faithfully carries about a billion riders a year, three-quarters of the nation's rapid- transit passengers. An average of 38 felonies are committed each day, only 2.6% of the city's total crime...