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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point on earth, at any time, past or present. Thompson's course has always been popular, but in recent years it has achieved an almost cultlike status at the school. Though a vivid lecturer and the co-author of what was for years the country's top-selling astronomy textbook, Thompson has traded the chalk-and-talk approach for a task-oriented mode of teaching, using Voyager. His students do not ``study'' astronomy; they become astronomers. From September through June, they complete a series of tasks, using computer-based tools like the ones astronomers use. Each task builds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEARNING REVOLUTION | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...textbook example of the "small world" phenomenon, Charles A. Peterson '96 discovered that a stranger who sent him a message over the Internet Relay Channel (IRC) shared a friend in common with...

Author: By H. NICOLE Lee, | Title: International Students Say The Internet Helps Them Save Money on Calls Home | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...only bargain in textbook shopping this semester: students buying sourcebooks for their spring classes get an arithmetic lesson for free. Prices have skyrocketed due to increased enforcement of copyright laws, according to sourcebook publishers...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: New Laws Raising Sourcebook Prices | 2/4/1995 | See Source »

...textbook on the essential lessons of the Kobe earthquake and the one that struck the Northridge section of Los Angeles on the same date a year earlier would read something like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...should have done all the work during the semester, and left my bathing suit and tanning oil back home, and taken my economics textbook instead...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: The Procrastination Cycle | 1/25/1995 | See Source »

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