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...about whether the trend toward crossovers will last. Some are urging us to write an obituary for the big SUV. But anyone who has ever driven one of these towering carriages knows it should be more of an elegy: halflings like the crossovers will never tickle the desire to pilot something enormous and fearless. Maybe it's only a matter of time before the massive SUV rigs go the way of three-martini lunches, cigarettes and, one fears, Big Macs. But it's been a glorious ride. --With reporting by Melissa August and Eric Roston/Washington, Sean Gregory/New York, Alison Onianwa/Fort...
...face to the classroom. Using a video-game-style controller, the child can direct the school robot to raise its hand to ask a question or swivel its head to follow the teacher. Scanning and printing features allow the child to receive and hand in homework assignments. The pilot project is still being refined. Next step, the creators say, is a robot that can go into the halls too, so that the ailing student can chat with friends between classes. --By Fran Stewart
Results of the pilot program indicate that the large research-oriented university is now the prevalent model in American education. Despite this, Parsons and Platt found that the image of the faculty member who wants to spend all his time doing research is largely a myth...
...group of faculty members in any of the eight schools in the pilot program, the sociologists report, wishes extensive specialization. In all types of schools studied, the majority of those questioned would allocate the most time to teaching...
...eight institutions used in the pilot study, whose identities were not disclosed, were divided into three "types": three of the schools were "high quality," three were "moderate" in calibre, and two were "less prestigious," Platt said yesterday...