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...would actually be nice [if shuttleboy were working]," he said "as I forgot to pick up a printed schedule. At breakfast, I had no idea when the next shuttle was, so I had to rush out to wait...
Since work is where we spend most of our time and where many of us meet our spouses, you have to wonder whether all this regulation isn't threatening the propagation of the species. Other freedoms, like speech and association, were getting shortchanged in the rush to protect women from sexual harassment. Almost everyone was alarmed when one guy was fired for repeating a Seinfeld joke at the water cooler...
With more computers than ever ready to be booted up in classrooms across the country, our schools should be turning out thousands of Bill Gates clones. Not so fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools forgot one key element - training the teachers. Education Week magazine has just completed a comprehensive report on technology in schools that shows teachers don't know what to do with all that RAM. Almost 50 percent don't use computers at all in teaching, and only 61 percent use the Internet...
Linden's smaller (6'0, 180 lbs.), but he's also more agile. He can scramble and avoid the rush better than Wilford (6'3, 220), and he is a legitimate running threat as well. Linden's better at running the option and is more spontaneous, although he sometimes tries to do too much, as in The Game...
...their own distress will miss out on these significant developments. A good strategy with an older child is to help him take charge, says New Jersey psychologist Nancy Devlin. "Ask, 'What is it about school that bothers you?' Then ask, 'What can you do to solve this problem?' Parents rush in to solve problems that children can solve themselves...