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...state--though he told USA Today that he could have done better. Asked last week whether Gore or Bill Bradley is more qualified to be President, the current holder of the job parsed Gore's resume, not his leadership abilities. As a bemused Bradley backer noted last week, "It almost makes you wonder whether Clinton really wants Gore...
Secondly, while our beloved T in Boston, begun in 1897, is still the peak of American public transportation, Los Angeles has finally opened a subway of its own. The new red line operates between Downtown LA and Hollywood. But while the T is almost universal in its popularity, it is unlikely that many of the image-conscious (yes, that myth is true) will leave their sport utility vehicles at home during peak commuting hours...
...almost blew our cover on the first challenge. "What are your interests?" the chirpy tour guide asked, adjusting his hat while walking uphill backwards. I had long ago turned in interests for a concentration, but I managed to mumble something about history and he passed on to the eager high school students...
Computers are cheap. Internet access is available almost everywhere. So why does the online world get richer and whiter every year? The third in a series of Commerce Department reports examining the "Digital Divide" finds that although more blacks and Hispanics are booting up and logging on than ever before, they?re still getting connected at a far slower rate than their white counterparts, with the gap between white and minority households online growing by six percent. "This is a problem not only for the minorities who are missing out, this is a problem for the Web," says TIME technology...
Even opposition activists have been shocked by the willingness of ordinary Serbs to demonstrate against Milosevic in the wake of the Kosovo debacle. On Monday 20,000 people ? almost one third of the town?s population ? took to the streets of Leskovac in response to a call sneaked into a basketball half-time show by a local TV technician. But even widespread grassroots anger may not be enough to bring down the indicted war criminal. "Milosevic won?t go simply because tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are out in the streets demanding his resignation," says Anastasijevic...