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...educators, sit in classrooms and personally observe their subjects at work. New York Correspondent Dorothy Ferenbaugh found one dedicated teacher who inspires her pupils to respect not only learning but also cleanliness; she personally keeps her classroom spotless. Miami Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury suffered through sweltering days in a windowless classroom in Clearwater, Fla., with a high school teacher and his restless, apathetic students. As the teacher told Woodbury, "Now you can see why some days I ask, 'What am I beating my head against the wall...
...attend the trial in the windowless 17th-floor courtroom, all witnesses, police, lawyers and spectators pass through two security checkpoints where they may be frisked and are electronically scanned like airline passengers. The judge has had a bulletproof Plexiglas partition erected between the audience and participants in the trial. Because belt buckles can be used as weapons, a sign outside reads: NO BELT BUCKLES OVER TWO INCHES; NO EXCEPTIONS...
...proposal was offered during the second round of face-to-face talks in a windowless van parked outside the Dominican Republic Embassy, scene of the week-old takeover...
...costly refinements of lighting systems. (At present, a late-staying worker at Manhattan's World Trade Center who does not have a lamp at his desk must switch on a quarter-acre of lights.) More important, the Federal Government's edict lowering thermostats to 65° F has left windowless inner rooms relatively tolerable, while prized corner offices, symbolic of executive success, sometimes are Siberian. An executive, whose drafty 26th-floor office commands a splendid view of northern Manhattan and a stretch of the Hudson, sat glaring at her thermometer last week. The reading was 62°, "and that doesn't allow...
...hour trip in a windowless cargo plane was a little tedious," says Scott of his journey, "but in 20 years as a TIME correspondent, few stories have proved more riveting." Since the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia, Operation California agents had to arrange their mission with the Cambodian embassy in Moscow. "Bona fides was eventually established with help from the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia," Scott explains, "but a green light came only four days before we took...