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...Star Tours took six years to make and cost $32 million. Link's Apaches, at $20 million apiece, cost at least $5 million more than the helicopters themselves. Even so, simulators are a bargain compared with the expense of training on the real thing, not to mention the expense in equipment and human lives when a real-world training mission goes awry. "One of the greatest things about simulators," says Honeywell's Figgins, "is that after the worst possible accident, everybody goes off and has a drink...
...state schools or receiving state aid to devote time to community projects. But, argues Robert Pollack, dean of Columbia College in New York City, "required service is not service, it is servitude." Besides, say participants, the spirit of giving does not need that goad. The personal satisfaction, the real-world exposure, the "chance to give something back," as dozens of volunteers put it, is enough. "In class, we study the big questions," says Georgetown Student Elaine Rankin. "At the homeless shelter we live the big questions...
Kalt said that he expects that his K-School courses will focus more on "immediate, real-world issues and policy analysis," than did his previous courses in the Economics Department...
...subterranean lake dotted with candelabra. As his alternately terrified and thrilled disciple, Sarah Brightman is more singer than actress but still manages to suggest a neurasthenic obsession with the Phantom. The half performance comes from erstwhile Ballet Dancer Steve Barton, who looks good and sings well as Christine's real-world lover but is unable to bring much color to the role...
...need for clearer norms for safeguarding academic independence is particularly evident at Harvard. Real-world controversies and outside pressures have become a routine part of life at the University. Debates and demonstrations over public policy issues are frequent and often furious. And pressure to divest stock in companies that do business in countries with repressive governments has brought those debates back to Harvard's corporate home. Meanwhile, United States government agencies that provide funding for academic research are attempting to close the door on free and open scholarship, and the need for universities to lobby in support of federal...