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Wilson and about 40 others, among them people with disabilities and their parents, developers of technology, and professional educators from a variety of academic disciplines, are taking part in an unprecedented two-week program designed to teach disabled individuals, their parents and educators how to take advantage of the new technology...
...letters -- along with the hundreds of others she has received -- may take some doing. And more may be on the way. Soon after the packet arrived from Canada, Cheng received a telephone call from Joan Audrish, a teacher in Factoryville, Pa.; she plans to use the TIME excerpts to teach her ninth- and tenth-graders about the Cultural Revolution. As for Cheng, she is doing some studying herself, boning up on U.S. history in preparation for becoming an American citizen. Says she: "I haven't been so happy since 1966," the year her old life was shattered by the Cultural...
BEST DWARF COMEBACK. Bruce Babbitt seemed to be everywhere in Atlanta, cracking jokes, hosting parties, making sense. Ironically, the candidate who said of his poor early television performances, "If they can teach Mister Ed to talk, they can teach me," was convention correspondent for two TV stations...
...into the real-life courthouse. In acting seminars across the nation, lawyers are paying $150 or more an hour to learn how to improve their performances before judges and juries. Says Actress Katherine James of Applied Theater Techniques: "Ten years ago, lawyers asked what we could possibly have to teach them. Now they call us up and cry, 'Help...
...Washington, Theater Director Gillian Drake, who four years ago founded Acting for Lawyers, loosens up buttoned-down barristers by having them mime such natural events as falling rain and falling leaves. Says Drake: "Lawyers are taught by their training to doubt. I teach them that what they have to do -- and this is what actors do -- is abandon doubt and jump right in." The practice seems to work. Washington Attorney Robert Trout, who has taken a couple of Drake's classes, says they have helped him "find the human story in whatever is the subject matter of the lawsuit...