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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...underscore Andropov's authority, the Soviet news agency TASS announced last week that Nobel Peace Prizewinning Physicist Andrei Sakharov, exiled to the city of Gorki since 1980, would not be allowed to accept an invitation from Vienna University to teach there for a year. The ostensible reason: Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb in the 1950s, knows too many state secrets...
...junior year of college. Another way of unpacking the curriculum would be to extend some of the course work into the three to six years that most doctors spend in residency programs. "Now that postgraduate training has become practically obligatory, there is no longer the urgency to teach everything in the first four years," says Dr. Thomas Meikle, dean of Cornell Medical College. Meikle prefers this approach to admitting students before they have finished college. Says he: "Nothing can replace four solid years of the liberal arts...
...many enthusiasts put their home machines to multiple use, and some of those other applications now run a close second to game playing. Forty-six percent of the home-computer owners interviewed said they use micros to do accounting or make business forecasts; 46% said they utilize them to teach their children spelling and mathematics. A sizable slice of the sampling, 37%, said they balance their checkbooks or household budgets on the machines. Less than 10% use them to store recipes or count calories...
Buying computers to teach children is increasingly important in the consumer market. Roper found that families with teen-agers were 50% more likely than the average household to have computers. Some surprising statistics: only 2% of computer owners in the Gallup survey expressed little satisfaction with their machines, and only 1% said that they were "not at all satisfied...
...years, where some 40,000 students took his first-year chemistry courses; in Kensington, Calif. His scientific research included discoveries about the absorption of gas into liquids under pressure that led to ways of protecting deep-sea divers from the bends. Hildebrand officially retired in 1952, but continued to teach graduate students, conduct research and write until a few months ago. "Brains are not such a drag on the market," he said, "that they should be deactivated prematurely...