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...reopen this month, the number of computers in U.S. classrooms has reached some 1 million (up from 630,000 last year). More and more of them will be used to teach the sort of practical skills that Angie found profitable: financial modeling, data-base management and word processing. Explains Marc Tucker, director of a Carnegie Corp. study on the subject: "Increasingly, schools view computers as intellectual assistants, as tools in the hands of kids, not as things to be programmed or to deliver instructional material...
Arguing against at least one aspect of the Bossert story, the drowning, was the revelation of Marc Berkowitz, who as a twelve-year-old in 1944 had been one of Mengele's guinea pigs, and also served the doctor as a messenger boy. From his home in New City, N.Y., Berkowitz recalled that the doctor "had a phobia about water. He was afraid of water-carried diseases." Mengele told Berkowitz that he never swam in rivers or lakes. In Brazil, meanwhile, a dentist said that she had treated a man just like Mengele two months after the alleged drowning...
...their summations, the attorneys in the Von Bulow case seemed to have exchanged roles. Defense Counsel Thomas Puccio once again seemed to be the aggressive prosecutor of his Abscam days, assertively addressing the facts of the case, while Prosecutor Marc DeSisto offered a histrionic and impassioned plea, long on emotion, short on detail...
...computer career began freshman year, when they began giving computer advice to commercial firms, sometimes with a fee, sometimes without one. Once they developed a reputation in the area for being able to solve computer problems, they formed MARBLE Associates. MARBLE was designed as an acronym of our names--Marc, Alan, and Robert, the original founders of the partnership. On the first of this year, MARBLE Associates became a corporation, thus limiting their personal liability: "If we get a lot of people who 'abuse' us [i.e., don't pay], and we go under, then we don't have to worry...
...schedule. "I can only go to sleep when it's light out," Elvy claims. When pressed to give a realistic schedule, they admit to missing most of their classes and usually catching the tail-end of lunch each day. "About 10 till two each day, I say to Elvy, 'Marc, we have to get up. We have to make lunch...