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...some much advertised union reforms remain cosmetic. Leaders of both unions have embraced "peer review" of teachers, where a new teacher's performance is judged for an entire year by a "consultant teacher." Peer review also seeks to identify and weed out veteran teachers who aren't performing. Feldman calls it "the best kind of teacher evaluation out there," but others call it a sham, designed to give unions even more control over personnel decisions. A handful of districts, taking their cue from the national union leaders, have successfully instituted peer review. But more often, local unions have ignored...
...book-selling industry. If you want a snapshot of the e-economy, 1998, you could do worse than Jeff Bezos, the founder of bookseller Amazon.com One day last week, as his stock price rose and fell with typical volatility, he stalked through his shuttered Seattle office, on a phone call, staring at his wristwatch, pacing, talking, thinking, plotting, scheming, then glancing at the watch again. Like the Net Economy, Bezos is all about motion...
...delivering. Its tens of thousands of sites can match your needs and desires as quickly as your Pentium can get online. It's possible to get everything from custom newspapers to electronic newsletters that alert you to sales of items you've always craved. Futurists used to call these services "The Daily Me," a play on the idea of daily newspapers. But customized websites are delivering something more like "the instant me"--real-time collections of just the information you want, which you can use to shop, buy a stock or plan a last-minute trip. In our 20th century...
...INVITED Being a CEO or a media maven helps; otherwise, have your people call Klaus' people, and if you have an interesting C.V., you can probably make it onto the final list...
...activist in the past year or so, Ware struggled with these feelings for years. Now, at 45, she is happy with her inner and outward selves, the latter feminized with hormones and women's clothes. Ware isn't yet "transsexual," but she does plan to undergo what doctors call "sex-reassignment surgery" when she and her beau David can afford it; it will cost about as much as their new Nissan...