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...idea for TWNS originated with the director of special projects for Time Inc.'s magazine group, Nathaniel Lande, who heads the new service. Each weekend as TIME goes to press, Lande, his deputy Edward Nayor sand their staff will select the stories that best encapsulate the events and tone of the week. "It is a delicate art," says Lande of the alchemy that goes into the editing. "Not everything that is on a printed page works effectively when it is spoken. Nevertheless, it is our charter to honor each story's integrity while adapting it to another medium...
Martin Dean, 43, president of Select Information Systems of Kentfield, Calif., has drawn up a consumer's bill of rights to combat hard-to-use software. "The only conclusion I can draw from the way some software packages operate," he argues, "is that their designers really think that you will be happy spending nights and weekends figuring out how to make the products work...
COLLEGE OFFICIALS, in discussing the tutor selection process, often underestimate the importance of student involvement because of a too-narrow focus on tutors' intellectual qualities. Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 says that because "tutors are teachers," the College looks for academic excellence before social skills, or, as Bossert says, Lowell House looks primarly for "great intellectuals. We don't select tutors primarily to entertain the students of participate in intramural sports--though that is an important way in meet students--the emphasis here is not on the rah-rah college thing...
...Center will also assist NASA in selecting a corporation to construct the craft and will help select specific instrument designs from proposals submitted by universities and institutions across the country...
...Meese's request, Smith last week asked a select panel of three senior federal judges to appoint a special prosecutor with a wide latitude to look into charges that Meese was helped financially by people who later got federal jobs, failed to report one loan and a stock purchase, got special treatment in shifting his Army Reserve status and knew more than he has admitted about documents from the 1980 Carter campaign that ended up in his own files. The prosecutor is expected to be named this week. Even if the investigation is completed within six months and Meese...