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...same place Cole frequented as a Columbia student during the early 1980s. Today, bridge players step out of the elevator to find a three-foot-high cardboard figure of the Queen of Hearts. The queen is pointing at an image of the White Rabbit, mounted 10 feet away on the same wall...
...possible they might pull a rabbit out of a hat," says Corlette. "If anything, it will be a scaled down version, maybe covering 92 percent of people, but even that's hard to achieve." According to Corlette, 85 percent of the population is now insured...
THREE-TO-SIX-YEAR-OLDS: For the youngest set of computer users, simplicity rules. Reader Rabbit I from the Learning Company uses digitized speech to help youngsters read and spell; kids click on three-letter words to hear Reader Rabbit pronounce them aloud. Millie's Math House from Edmark has an animated talking cow that invites children into her home to learn about numbers, shapes and sizes. And just this month, Software Toolworks released Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! for Kids, a simplified version of a program for older children that has sold more than 3 million copies since...
Does this software really teach kids anything that sticks? While there are no wide-ranging, independent studies to prove that such best sellers as Math Blaster and Reader Rabbit boost students' grades or test scores, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that kids love them -- and that the best ones can be useful teaching aids. Garry Breitstein, a teacher at Seattle's Hawthorne School, says his fifth-graders often spend their lunch hour and recess logging on to programs like Microsoft's Creative Writer, which helps children write stories by suggesting possible situations and opening lines. Another favorite is Microsoft...
...Riding Hood, which was also the source for Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, is vintage Avery -- a hilariously precise essay on the elemental impulses of desire, hunger, revenge and infantile mischief-making. It offers a smart introduction to a popular artist who used warp-speed motion to plumb dark emotions and who created some of film's most anarchic, surreal, fall-down-funny visions...