Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Washington's movers and shakers get home from a hard day at work and switch on CBS for the 7 o'clock news, they get TV's equivalent of the New York Times or Washington Post: a sober (if succinct) look at the day's events. Come next September, however, those viewers will have to tune in half an hour earlier for Dan Rather's report. Replacing it at 7 will be a different sort of news show, based on a different sort of newspaper: USA Today...
Updike's letter of choice is "S", for sex. The switch reflects the irrelevance of sin in the modern world. Extramarital sex violates no norms, it's simply an act. The novel takes Sarah Worth out of a suburban sterility as arid as any Arizona desert and into a empty series of heterosexual and homosexual love affairs. We are even provided with an actual transcription of her first sexual encounter with the Ahrat, courtesy of a miniaturized tape recorder fastened to her breast. The endless repetition of these erotic adventures strips them of any moral aspect...
...very hard for British undergraduates to experiment, he says. "It may be good to have the chance to switch around a bit," Taylor says. "At Cambridge, the most flexible university in the U.K., the [exam] system allows taking a different subject each year. Normally, if you sign on the dotted line for electrical engineering at 17, that's what you're taking...
...students in applied math, engineering, physics and other hard sciences feel uncomfortable discussing their concentrations with non-science Harvard students? Why do almost 50% of the freshmen who arrive at Harvard/Radcliffe intending to concentrate in one of the hard sciences eventually switch departments...
Northwest Airlines has apparently decided it is better to switch than fight: as of April 23, the fifth largest U.S. airline will be the first major carrier to ban smoking on all flights within North America. The ban goes beyond federal regulations, scheduled to take effect the same day, that will outlaw smoking on domestic flights of two hours or less. Northwest executives concede that the policy may drive away some puffing passengers, but they believe that many zealous nonsmokers will become new customers...