Word: restrictions
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...expand its laptop program to high school students. In the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to goof off or visit unauthorized websites. But teachers have the ability to track where students have been on the Web and to restrict them. "That is the worst when they disable you," says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. "You go through laptop withdrawal." The habit is rubbing off on parents. "I taught my mom to use e-mail," says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. "And now she's taking computer classes...
Some members argued that the proposed change in definition of the council's power would unnecessarily restrict the council' s actions. It proposed removing language authorizing the council to act on any matter "that can be decided or considered by an officer, office, or official body within the University...
...Bromley Professor of Law Arthur R. Miller at Harvard Law School (HLS)--who was forced to remove his online lectures from the web-based Concord University School of Law late last fall-- is not pleased with the new policies. He says the new policy will further restrict professor's academic freedom...
...same success for the entire country, but Gore is pointing to a much grimmer Texas. On health care, which Bush largely ignored during his five years in office, Gore notes that the ranks of uninsured poor have increased during the Governor's tenure and that Bush tried to restrict the number of children covered by government-funded health insurance. In a befuddling reversal for a campaign so conditioned to cheering Bush's Texas record, a spokesman last week tried to deflect attacks on that record by saying the campaign would be focusing on the future and not the past...
Reached at Dartmouth last night, some students said they fear the administrative action will leave their social life high and dry and restrict student freedoms...