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...parking lot and playing fields. School facilities manager John Floyd watches the screens in his office, guarding against threats from without and within. Since the cameras were installed in 2001, school spending on replacement windows has dropped from $14,380 a year to virtually zero. The cameras snared a pupil hurling a brick through a window after being sent home from a school trip, and two would-be bike thieves wielding bolt cutters. "We don't like having the intrusion, but it works," Floyd says. Students initially objected, but now hardly notice the system. Asked to locate a corridor camera...
DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs elegantly interpreted Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Ark. Best known for the light tensile wooden Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture, designing buildings that blend comfortably with their natural surroundings. He typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting for his creations, which included fountains, gardens and pavilions...
...DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered an elegant interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Best known for the light wood Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 U.S. states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture?designing buildings to blend in with their natural surroundings. DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as the 1970 Oscar-winning Woodstock; in San Francisco. He also worked on such...
When he discovered that his former pupil was vying for the presidency in 2000, Tsurumi said he tried to inform the public about his experience with the then-Texas governor at HBS—but got few results beyond hate mail...
...interest without effort has little permanent value for the mind". These words of President Lowell in his address at the Boston University graduation yesterday reiterate, by antithesis, the proper relation of teacher and student. The effective teacher can make learning attractive but cannot remove its intrinsic difficulties. The pupil without will to break his co coon cannot comprehend the most lucid of expositions...