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...last week’s Boston City Council meeting, the opening salvos were shot in what will prove to be a long, protracted but ultimately valuable debate about race and education in Boston Public Schools (BPS). Boston’s famously contentious busing program was a watershed when first instituted in 1974. The court order, issued by Judge Arthur W. Garrity, to racially integrate Boston’s public school system opened a rift along racial lines, the vestiges of which have haunted the city since; images of South Boston residents hurling bricks at school buses have remained etched...
Today, the best way to move past these memories is to tackle them head on. Boston’s demographics have changed so drastically since the 1970s that busing is now inadequate to ensure diversity; BPS currently spends more than $24 million on desegregation busing in a system that is 85 percent minority. It is impossible for BPS to reflect Boston’s true diversity with so few of the city’s white majority (54 percent) remaining in the system—a symptom of the “white flight” that has persisted since...
...research, I settled on the Motorola StarTac 7860 ($240). I decided to buy it partly because it's the latest in Motorola's venerable line of lightweight (4.4 oz.), pocket-size flip phones. But what really sold me was the fact that this phone could double as a 14.4-bps modem--I could string a cable between it and my laptop and surf the Net or send and receive e-mail on its bigger screen using my normal jquit@well.com account...
...Internet radio transmitter. Your iBook, iMac or G4 PowerMac loaded with an AirPort card can be online (or hooked together) anywhere in your home, without wires, at 56k connection speeds (AirPort also supports superspeedy cable modems or DSL). Since normal wireless connections creep along at 9,600 bps, this is nothing short of revolutionary...
There is a wild card in the Internet deck too: wireless services. Hughes Network Systems sells DirecPC and DirecDuo dishes (the latter with both Web and TV reception) that can download Web pages at a relatively brisk 200,000 to 400,000 BPS. Last month Loral's CyberStar unit joined the fray with a satellite system of its own. Both are more expensive than cable and DSL (monthly fees can run more than $100 for unlimited use), but satellite dishes can be used almost anywhere, including vacation cabins and other rural locations. Several companies are also experimenting with a ground...