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...school administrators are concerned, however, that the new technology will erode their control. Principals have little leverage over teachers who live hundreds of miles away and do not teach exclusively in one district. Adolescent daydreaming carries less of a penalty when students know they can view a lesson on tape. "We don't play the typical games," says David Benke, who teaches computer science to pupils from San Isidro, Texas, and Prescott, Iowa. "You've got to have a student who really wants to learn...
...technological forerunner of the modern voice-messaging system was the common telephone-answering machine. But now, instead of talking to a simple tape recorder, people are conversing with a computer at the end of the line. At the heart of the new systems are special-purpose computer chips and software that convert human speech into bits of digital code. These digitized voices can then be stored on magnetic disks and retrieved in a flash, just like any other piece of computer data...
...marketplace being a multilayered and ever more convoluted place, there are newsletters that devote themselves solely to scrutinizing other newsletters' performances. Stan Weinstein, who edits the Professional Tape Reader, is still bleeding from one such analysis, in which the writer likened his record to that of the Suzuki Samurai. "Stan's not always right," he tells his audience. "I'm not saying, 'Follow me across the river, this is Moses.' " He just wants them to think with him. What he thinks about are the elaborate, hand-drawn charts that fill his filing cabinets and cover every wall of his office...
What he said in private: "We can say we don't have a quorum and then we're okay."--Lee, before the public adjournment as he justified his actions to fellow council members, according to a Crimson tape...
...television news yesterday broadcasted the first tape of the march. The report also repeated a warning that the protest was illegal and that organizers were breaking...