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Learn the names of all the rivers in South America. That was the assignment given to Deborah Stipek's daughter Meredith in school, and her mom, who's dean of the Stanford University School of Education, was not impressed. "That's silly," Stipek told her daughter. "Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google." Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless...
...While most new militants are under 30 years old, their commanders are often veterans like Hassam, who has fought with both B.R.N. and P.U.L.O. and is now in his 50s. Like other old-school insurgents, Hassam accepted a government amnesty in the 1990s, but rejoined the insurgency after Thaksin rose to power in 2001. In the past, he explains, militants camped out in remote hills along the Thailand-Malaysia border; now they live among the people. "Our men in the city have to be smarter to avoid arrest," he says. "But here it's easier to track the movements...
...helping to revive UA as an artist-led studio, Cruise will be the latest entrant in an old-school Hollywood tradition. Like Chaplin's original vision, Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope and Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg's Dreamworks SKG (now owned by those baddies at Viacom), Cruise's UA will, apparently, attempt to nurture a creative environment for filmmakers. In an ever-more bottom-line-conscious era of movie-making, it sounds like an impossible mission. But then, we hear this guy has experience with that sort of thing...
...against underage drinking, some students fear that this year’s tailgate will be lacking. Appropriately wary, student leaders are putting their reinstated UHaul privileges to creative use and considering a weekend full of crowd-pleasing events.MOOSE VS. CHICKENIn years past, the combination of binge drinking and some old-school rivalry has made for some memorable Harvard-Yale tailgate highlights.“My favorite memory of the last home Harvard-Yale game was the Dunster House mascot getting in a fight with a Yale mascot,” says Samantha H. Fink ’07, Dunster House...
...Line Rider has its origins in pokey old-school video games like Pong as well as newer flash animations such as George W. Bush Freefall, which depicted the President as a ragdoll flopping between different sized orbs in a neverending pattern. Unlike those diversions, however, Line Rider requires users to use their imaginations and sketch out a unique path - which can range from a simple 45-degree angle to a wildly detailed rollercoaster ride with obstacles, bridges, tunnels, even hungry sharks...