1、An invisible border divides tho arguing for computers in the classroom on the behalf of students’ career prospects and tho arguing for computers in the classroom for broader reasons of radical educational reform.
2、This temptation to cover the distance between himlf and the reader, to study his image in the sight of tho who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to plea.
3、Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the cour of world history.
4、An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is a technical education, justified for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law.
5、But, for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since well-developed skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not.
6、His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.
7、“I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, becau I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks ,” he says.
8、Robert Fulton once wrote, “The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. , like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.”
9、Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today.
10、In thinking about the evolution of memory together with all its possible aspects, it is helpful to consider what would happen if memories failed to fade.
11、In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
12、At the same time the computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly.
13、Some of the caus are completely reasonable conquences of particular advances in science being to some extent lf-accelerating.
14、The target is wrong, for in attacking the tests, critics divert attention from the fault that lies with ill-informed or incompetent urs.
15、To criticize it for such failure is roughly comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind velocity.
16、The fact that half of the known species are thought to inhabit the world’s rain forest d
oes not em surprising, considering the huge number of incts that compri the bulk of the species.
17、To appreciate fully the diversity and abundance of life in the a, it helps to think small.
18、The consumers would be able to lect their view of the match on a gigantic, flat screen occupying the whole of one wall, with images of a clarity which cannot be foreen at prent.
19. The only meals regularly taken together in Britain the days are at the weekend, among rich families struggling to retain something of the old symbol of togetherness.
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1. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes.
2. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cas where a warning label probably wouldn’t have changed anything.
3. I have known very few writers, but tho I have known, and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going.
4. In the first place, any scientific study requires that there be no preferential weighting of one or another of the items in the ries it lects for its consideration.
5. It was necessary first to arrive at that degree of sophistication where we longer t our own belief against our neighbor’s superstition.
6. In this way, we have learned all that we know of the laws of astronomy, or of the habits of the social incts, let us say.
7. Some companies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company’s private intranet.
8. Very few writers on the subject have explored this distinction-indeed, contradiction-which goes to the heart of what is wrong with the campaign to put computers in the classroom.
