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Sprint's experience is that soft-skills training seems to work. Most Sprint welfare hires start with six weeks of basic-skills boot camp at Kansas City's Metropolitan Community Colleges. It's amazing what some students don't know. To many, it's news that they can't wear just anything they want to get a job: short shorts, sweats, spandex. Some need to be told that "bed head," clumped-up hair from a night on the pillow, is out. With the motto "Expect the Unexpected" on the board, they talk about getting to work. "That person...
Stories about AIDS research these days tend to fall into one of three categories: promising treatments, oversold developments or elegant science. This one has elegance written all over it and a rather striking picture to boot. A team of researchers led by scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Columbia University in New York City reported last week that they had for the first time deciphered the three-dimensional structure of a key portion of the AIDS virus. Their results, which are likely to be the topic of much discussion at the 12th World AIDS Conference...
...pays to play it safe, though: before installing Windows 98, back up any sensitive files onto floppies. Elect to make an emergency start-up disk, which is a way to boot your system if all else fails. Also during setup you can save a copy of Windows 95. Do this in case you want to revert to your old operating system--a fallback if, say, your Win 98 disk is corrupted. Note, however, that the backup will consume 50 megabytes of space on your hard drive, which you'll want to reclaim later. (Windows 98 hogs 200 megabytes of space...
...just before her suicide in 1963 made her a literary and feminist martyr. Her onetime mentor Robert Lowell described her last works as "playing Russian roulette with six cartridges in the cylinder." Plath's poem to her long-dead father redefined confessional writing: "Every woman adores a Fascist,/ The boot in the face, the brute/ Brute heart of a brute like...
...already happening, albeit in the crudest of ways. Boot up a computer program called the Axe, for instance, and you can jam along with Stevie Wonder's hit song Superstition. "Anyone can play music and have a really satisfying experience," says Eran Egozy, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., software company specializing in "jamware." By moving your mouse around on a compass-like grid, you can play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous...