Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real piece of roadside America, which today is mostly vanished," he says...
After the Early Action acceptances were issued, many of us immediately began to get to know one another digitally. By instinctively (proudly? pretentiously?) adding "Harvard 2003" to our America Online profiles, 20 or so first-years got in touch via e-mail. As the group grew, we set up an automated list-server using the eGroups.com service...
Years ago, German sociologist Max Weber wrote that America's expectations of a successful young academic were such that he could "draw large crowds of students" to his lectures. His charisma, his style and his temperament were more significant motivations for a student to enroll in a lecture class than the material itself...
Paul Romer, professor of economics at Stanford University, heartily agrees on the state of America's (and the Internet's) socioeconomic divide: "My guess is it's going to be just like internal combustion on the farm," he says. "If there isn't a change in investments in skills, it will actually widen...
...eternal vigilance could well be the price of freeware. In the beginning, the primary allure of the Web was that everyone on it immediately had their own stage, their own printing press, and the government seemed out of earshot. Now that the Internet has become a backbone of corporate America and of the nation's thriving economy, it is getting more attention from the government from ever. According to these guys, it dearly needs...