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...residence hall. Video technology could not only transmit lectures but bring the resources of the outside world to students in living color. For example, are history majors could use a videodisc linked with a computer to explore the great museums they chose for as long as they wished, and summon up text to explain the picture and the circumstances under which it was painted...
...graduates of most professional schools will need to work with computers--or at least understand their uses and limitations--in order to practice their calling in later life. With the waves of technical information that are engulfing medical practice, most physicians will have to use these machines to summon up the data they need and manipulate it to aid in reaching clinical decisions. Corporate executives already call on sophisticated computer analysis in reaching many business decisions. Even lawyers have come to rely on computers to do their research and may look to expert systems for help in making certain kinds...
...More that 5000 students thronged the Yard to hear the Rev. Jesse I. Jackson denounce Harvard's ties to South Africa, and then some 75 staged an all-night vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. If there were any doubts as to whether the campus divestiture movement would be able to summon the strength for another spring drive, they were decisively dispelled...
...advantage, lawyers maintain, is Disney's right from the time of the accident. Employees quickly summon supervisors and "security hosts" to round up witnesses and interview the injured, who are often their own worst enemies. Says Orlando Attorney John Overchuck: "It's your dignity that really is on the line, and God knows what you'll say at the time: 'I should have been looking where I was going. How stupid of me.' " Alert Disney staffers write it all down...
...victims of torture, the world is a minefield of horrifying memories. One woman panics whenever she sees a dark Ford like the one that hauled her away to severe beatings and a gang rape. Some survivors have trouble entering bathrooms, because the tile, lighting and smell summon up images of their torture chambers. "How do you cure torture?" asks Genevieve Cowgill, 44, director of the Canadian Center for Investigation and Prevention of Torture. "It's not something you can simply talk victims...