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...times the National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player, is being called the "center of the '70s." Malone, 28, 6 ft. 10 in., soon to be named M.V.P. of the league for a third time, is the "center of the '80s." They are so unalike they are fascinating. Abdul-Jabbar is complex, Malone uncomplicated. When Moses won his first M.V.P. distinction, largely on the strength of his relentless offensive rebounding, he thanked his teammates for missing so many shots. "Kareem is the best player of all time," says Moses flatly. But he also says...
Underwritten in part with a $40,000 grant from Atari, "Video Games and Human Development: A Research Agenda for the '80s" represented one of the first attempts to organize the nascent and often flimsy research done on the subject so far. Typical of the early studies are interviews with nearly 1,000 young people in Los Angeles video arcades, undertaken by David Brooks, an instructor at the University of Southern California. Brooks told the Harvard meeting that most of the youngsters were average or above average students and that they rarely played hooky from school...
...research agenda for the '80s," said the conference's guiding spirit, Inabeth Miller, director of the Gutman Library at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, was to harness the dynamic stimulation of the games to foster learning without drudgery. Sylvia Weir, a research associate at M.I.T., showed a film of an educational video game in which the user experiences the principles of Newtonian physics. One scientist indicated that the games are already serving those hardest to educate. Stephen Leff, of the Harvard Medical School, reported preliminary findings that video games' "massive capacity for eliciting attention" helped...
...Route 128 strip around Boston, California's Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina. The uneven distribution of job opportunities is beginning to cause mass migrations reminiscent of other periods in American history. Thousands of young people are heeding the cry of the '80s: "Go West, young man, and grow up with a new industry...
...early 1950s and drew splendid performances from Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert and Guy Marchand. Chantal Akerman, a Belgian director whose monumental minimalist soap opera, the 1975 Jeanne Dielman, has made her queen of the European film avantgarde, confounded all expectations with a sprightly, witty musical called The '80s. The Cannes audience came to snooze and stayed to cheer...