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...removed from the concerns of students. Many undergraduates have no idea who their council representatives are or what exactly the council does every Sunday night at 7 p.m. The average students' only contact with the council is during a quick bite of a fly-by lunch on a weekday afternoon, although some students are probably even unaware that fly-by was the accomplishment of a council member...
...have friends who attend morning prayers at Hillel every weekday and others who go to daily Mass, all when most of us are still sleeping. All religions have their own weekly rhythms and calendar holidays which observant students have to balance with their many commitments to school, work and extra-curricular activities. They do it successfully, many seeing this aspect of their lives as the one that informs and under-girds all the others...
...sixth-grader settles down to tackle her homework on a weekday afternoon in 2004. Instead of hunching over the kitchen table with a three-ring binder, she's sitting on the bus with her laptop. She logs on to the Internet to take a math-skills test on the school home page and get her own personalized assignment, downloads the software she'll need, seeks help from an online school librarian and e-mails the finished work to her teacher. Mom and Dad check in from their office computers, comparing her scores with the class and state averages...
...interviews with TIME, compares himself to the fabled tortoise, turned out to be more enduring in his own relentless quest to frame the debate as a public, legal and constitutional issue. I visited with him earlier this month in the windowless beige conference room where every weekday this year he marshaled his troops in pursuit of Bill Clinton. He insisted that he had been falsely caricatured and thus agreed to spend hours last week with Michael Weisskopf and Eric Pooley as well as to open his office to photographer Karin Cooper...
...children sampled spent a quarter of their rapidly diminishing "free time" watching television. But that, believe it or not, was one of the findings parents might regard as good news. Kids watched TV for an average of an hour and a half each weekday, the study found, a 25% decline since 1981. The drop parallels the Nielsen ratings, which show that TV viewership by kids ages 2 to 11 has reached its lowest level since...