Word: wausau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...founded a nonprofit organization called For Spacious Skies and had begun publishing a 32-page guide for teachers, outlining ways in which the sky can stimulate learning. Since then, 17,000 copies have been scooped up, and "sky awareness" has entered curriculums in school districts from Lubbock, Texas, to Wausau...
MEAT CUTTER Jim Zillman, of Wausau, Wisc., yesterday told 1.1 million Americans that he thinks prison inmates should help clean up this nation's roads...
...Minnetonka, Minn., Utters his house with poems and sketches but will do almost anything to avoid doing his math homework. Yet Jay is one of the Gatewood Elementary School's premier computerniks and regularly helps teachers introduce fourth-graders to the machines. At West High School in Wausau, Wis., Chris Schumann, 16, a junior, has made a name for himself by translating musical notes into digital form and getting a computer to play Bach and Vivaldi through its loudspeaker. Originally, Chris regarded computers as remote and forbidding, but that changed when he was introduced to his first micro...
...youngsters take equally to the machines. In a typical computer class, only about one in five students becomes seriously involved. Says Steven Scott, 16, of Wausau's West High: "Either you get the hang of it or you don't." Even so dedicated a computernik as Ridgewood's Nick Newman finds programming interesting but only for a purpose. His own goal is to apply his computer knowledge to a career in science or medicine...
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