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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people live longer and want to have active living and learning years, there aren't many people to look after them, and I think it's an interesting and a very decent thing for universities to do," Shinagel said in an interview last week...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Education Never Ends | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...really teach, anyway," Tyndall says. "It's a very relaxed sort of thing--just in-class with no big assignments. Some of the classes are very regimented with homework and papers, but I don't have time for that...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Education Never Ends | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...This is very much a trend among retired people," says Shinagel, citing programs in Pennsylvania and Florida which have started learning in retirement communities. "It's a very natural thing...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Education Never Ends | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...example, Jackson, one of baseball's greatest hitters, became a victim of the conspiracy, since he couldn't read or write. Sweeney, whose swing could rival that of some real-life baseball players, brilliantly portrays Jackson as a simple man who knows only one thing: how to hit a baseball. Buck Weaver also represents this innocence, and Cusack does an exceptional job of playing this typical "man against the world" character...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...developed for jet-fighter pilots, Hutchinson's device measures the reflection of light from the retina to determine where on a computer display the eye is gazing. A person equipped with the eye tracker simply looks at a command on the screen and the computer executes it. "The last thing to go in the body is the eye muscle," says Hutchinson. "With this system we have an opportunity to free minds that are trapped inside bodies that do not work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Best Part Is I Can Do It All | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

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