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Ariz. educators embrace trend of technology in their curriculum (The Arizona Republic)
Just two decades ago, many schools had only a few computers and taught lessons about typing. But Monday marked a drastic change for Arizona schools as one of the first K-5 technology academies opened its doors to students. Veteran help instrumental to upstart contenders (Sports Illustrated)
Age is a funny thing. Well, maybe not when I put my keys in the fridge and attempt to start my car with the milk, but it is a funny thing. My dad turned 70 this week. You'd never know it. He's just as spry, energetic, and funny as he has been my whole life. That same guy who coached my little league teams, taught me how to hit, and was always up for a catch, still plays some tennis, has become a ... Back to School (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
I primarily do two kinds of teaching: Torah classes in a wide range of areas within my extended congregational community and California civil procedure and advanced torts at law school. Almanac (The State)
MEETINGS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS COLUMBIA CLEMSON CLUB: Noon Wednesday at Seawell’s on Rosewood Drive. Guest speaker will be Will Merritt. Tickets are $20; to make a reservation, send a check payable to the Columbia Clemson Club, P.O. Box 2242, Columbia, SC 29202 or e-mail mtaylor@mcnair.net PALMETTO PERSONAL COMPUTER CLUB: 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, at Capital Senior Center, 1650 ... Microsoft's Initiative Spawns Software to Improve Worker Productivity (HispanicBusiness.com)
Microsoft Corp. 's Matt Dyor will be paying close attention Tuesday to how computer users react to the program that he and another employee have been developing for the past year. Helping Hands (The Haverhill Gazette)
Suicide-prevention training to begin Members of the Haverhill Community Violence Coalition and the Northeast Coalition for Suicide Prevention will begin master training classes to help launch a suicide-prevention program in Haverhill. Hardball: Jerome Holtzman remembered on Monday (Chicago Tribune)
In a twist, Microsoft lawyer helps create software prototype (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The latest experimental prototype from Microsoft's Office Labs group was created not by hard-core developers but by a Microsoft patent lawyer and an employee from the company's IT department. Couple’s computer center in Taiwan a friendship hub (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
TAIPEI—ROY AND HEIDE VILLUNA are two unassuming Filipinos accomplishing feats in Taiwan. As the heart and soul of the 5-year-old e-PC Data Processing and Learning Center in Taipei, this couple has been quietly and steadily promoting computer literacy among Taiwan’s overseas Filipino workers. Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89 (The Lexington Dispatch)
The Nobel Prize-winning author, whose literary struggles revealed the afflictions of Soviet Communism, has died.
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