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...hours later, I'm down at the local galaxy-class grocery store, in Bulk: a Manhattan of towering Lucite bins filled with steel-cut rolled oats, off- brand Froot Loops, sun-dried tomatoes, prefabricated s'mores, macadamias, French roasts and pignolias, all dispensed into your bag or bucket with a jerk at the handy Plexiglas guillotine. Not a human being in sight, just robot restocking machines trundling back and forth on a grid of overhead catwalks and surveillance cameras hidden in smoked-glass hemispheres. I stroll through the gleaming Lucite wonderland holding a perfect 6-in. cube improvised from duct...
...fact is that access to the new technology generally breaks down along traditional class lines. Wealthy and upper-middle-class families form the bulk of the 30% of American households that own computers. Similarly, wealthier school districts naturally tend to have equipment that is unavailable to poorer ones, and schools in the more affluent suburbs have twice as many computers per student as their less-well-funded urban counterparts. All this disparity comes to a head in this statistic: a working person who is able to use a computer earns 15% more than someone in a similar job who cannot...
...Travel Network Ltd., a New Jersey firm that franchises 350 agencies around the world, last week sued six airlines for allegedly conspiring to fix commissions at artificially low levels. Particularly hard hit will be agencies that rely on business-travel packages, that cost more than $500 apiece for the bulk of their revenues-as compared with agencies that specialize in budget-vacation trips. "The airlines are willing to pay you your regular 10% commission on all of the garbage," says Karen Kalmus, president of Travel Agency Accounting Systems, a Kansas City, Missouri, consulting firm. "But on all of the sirloin...
...committee met for the first time this month, Vice President for Administration N. Sally Zeckhauser said in an interview last week. The bulk of the committee's work will come next month, added Zeckhauser, who serves on the committee...
...bulk of Rudenstine's contribution to higher education has been his co-authorship of In Pursuit of the Ph.D, which, while a fine piece of research, didn't quite make it into the national spotlight...