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...driven Jeannie into deeper resentment, we wonder if finally he will find the gumption to break the habit of polite dissimulation. What gives us hope is a character we never see. His name is Ndugo. He's a 6-year-old Tanzanian boy whom Warren sponsors with a $22-a-month contribution to Childreach. The charity encourages donors to write their "adoptees," and to this child Schmidt pours out all the suppressed secrets of his heart. We begin to think, Well, maybe...
With 35 million subscribers worldwide (vs. 9 million for MSN), AOL will continue to have the edge, if only from subscriber inertia. But that may not last long. Microsoft's $21.95-a-month charge is $1.95 less than AOL's, and its broadband access ranges from $40 to $50 a month, vs. $55 for AOL. MSN subscribers also get free versions of Microsoft's encyclopedia and bill-paying and photo-editing software...
...through Cabrini after dark. Nearly anything would be safer than Cabrini, she reasoned. But just two months after she moved in, a vandal torched the building entryway. In the fire and smoke, all her possessions were lost. After enduring several days in a shelter, Berryman and her son squeezed into the three-bedroom apartment of her daughter Kizzy, 23, and her six children for a few months until the two could find a new place to stay. Their next stop was a $680-a-month two-bedroom on the city's West Side that was spacious--even if the neighborhood...
Smart people, says a woman I will call Layla, who quit her $2-a-month office job because it wasn't worth getting up in the morning, know they have to go. Smart people, she says, want to live. Layla has a Malaysian-cloned computer in her house, paid for by her brother in Florida. In the past year, Iraqis have been permitted to buy up-to-date computers if they have the cash. Layla can e-mail her brother, but she can't surf the Net: ordinary citizens are not allowed...
FAST PHONES Last week Verizon became the first U.S. company to deploy the fancy, fast new form of wireless Internet access known to techies as "3G," for "third generation." The $30-a-month service (Verizon calls it the Express Network) will send data to PCs with special wireless cards, and even to some cell phones, more than twice as fast as an ordinary 56K modem...