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Robots help teach students
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ? The twins who just moved here
from California are making a big hit at the local elementary
schools, even though they're a little funny-looking and have
no last names. Or is it no first names?
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something like R2D2 of "Star Wars" fame. The Lincoln
school system brought them in to help teach youngsters the
basics of computer science, and the pupils love it.
"It is not a panacea for education," said McPhee principal
Ralph Thorpe, "but it is a tool that can reach children."
The children program Topo to perform a sort of boxy robot
dance with instructions to walk forward and back, side to side,
or make a square ("Walk two steps forward, turn 90 degrees;
repeat three times").
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robots, made in Sunnyvale, Calif., can talk.
But the biggest thrill, said Thorpe, came when the school
bought a printing machine that types out the youngsters' computer
programs "because they had something in hand to take
to their parents" - the way kids used to bring home crayon
drawings of fall leaves.
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a cover up at Tampa Stadium, demanding that if women must
wear shirts, men should do likewise.
"Sweaty, topless men are offensive," Chavez told council
members last week in calling for a ban on allowing men to go
shirtless at Tampa Stadium.
,4I resent that women would be arrested for going topless,
while we have to put up with offensive, bare-chested, sweaty
men," she said.
Councilman Lee Duncan, the city's representative on the
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plaint to the authority and see if members want to mandate a
cover up of male sports fans.
Duncan, however, said, "I don't object to you women coming
topless."
Joe Zalupski, the authority's executive director, said he had
never received complaints about shirtless fans, but "there's a
first time for everything."
Zalupski said the complaint probably will be brought up
when Duncan presents it, but he wouldn't venture a guess on
the outcome.
"There's a solution for every kind of dilemma," he said.
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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. (AP) ? First they made the world's
largest omelette, then the largest sandwich, largest cake,
largest popcorn ball and largest lasagna. Now, folks here are
trying for the largest brownie.
At the sixth annuai Culinary Festival here Sunday, Louis
DiRubba, president of the Westchester & Lower Connecticut
Chefs' Association, will supervise 70 chefs and 30 cooking
students in making this recipe:
Mix 500 pounds of flour, sugar and cocoa with 350 eggs and
175 cups of oil. Put in 45-foot-long by 5-feet-4 inches wide ban
and bake for an hour in a 46-by-6-foot oven.
No nuts, because a lot of people don't care for them, said
Pat Belth, the festival coordinator.
The Guinness Book of World Records has already told the
festival that the proposed brownie would be a record.
Since 1978, this city and the Peekskill Area Health Center
Inc., have Used OUtsized concoctions tn raise mnnpu anH clir#?
bake and beat their way into the record books.
The festival's omelette and sandwich of past years achieved
listings in the Guinness book. The popcorn ball and lasagna,
while certified the biggest, never got listed, festival officials
said.
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Sex education t
(AP) ? A new series of videotapes
on sex education will be premiering in
seventh grade classrooms across South
Carolina this fall with the message that
"Getting the facts right is an important
part of growing up."
"I think a great majority of parents
would not have a problem with the
tapes, particularly since they will have
the option of witholdinp thpir rnn.
sent," said Beverly Enwall, chief curriculum
supervisor at the state Department
of Education.
The tapes were made by the department
and the South Carolina Medical
Association, and carry the endorsements
of both.
NEARLY A third of the state's 93
school districts sent teachers to Columbia
recently to be trained in presenting
:he videotapes, which are intended for
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audiences in three Alabama cities that his
conservative voters was something of a c<
registration efforts by the Rev. Jesse Jac
Falwell, joined Monday by Alaban
Jeremiah Denton in Dothan, Montgome
urged Alabama preachers and members o
to register conservative voters.
"We're not out to elect all whites <
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"We were very pleased at the
positive response," Enwall said. She
said some school district may seek
school board approval before they add
the tapes to their curriculum.
"I think most of the districts will bring
it to the school board - and perhaps
additionally to the community - and
offer parents a chance to view
whatever they want to view," she said.
The exception, she said, might be
where "they already have this kind of
program in place and are just using the
tapes as a supplement."
THE MEDICAL association is
recommending that the six-tape series
be shown to boys and girls separately.
Enwall said the 168 teachers who
received training in presenting the tape
were an evenly divided group of men
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and women.
"What we stressed was that the
teacher be one who has good professional
ability and good rapport with
students, and who could deal wisely
with sensitive issues," she said.
Topics in the tapes were selected by
the South Carolina physicians who
donated their time to the project.
THE FIRST two tapes deal with the
relationship of the child to his family
and his friends, the next two cover the
physical changes that occur in the male
and female body during puberty, and
the final tape discusses the emotional,
physical and social problems of
puberty.
"Don't do anything foolish," one
doctor concludes in the tapes. "The
family is there to help take care of each
other. They love you very much and
care what happens to you."
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that Moral Majority did not condone
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r leader said his voter registration drive
project, covering all 50 states and aimed
in 2 million "new and conservative"
the fall of 1984.
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door-to-door canvassing. He said
ged to get deputized voter registrars to
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