Word: central
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...after Watergate. We grew up not only with an instinctive skepticism of government, but the proof to back it up. Irancontra. A Gulf War that looked an awful lot like a battle to keep the world safe for oil. The CIA too busy with an illegal scheme to overthrow Central America to chastise contacts for flooding poor black neighborhoods with cheap crack cocaine. All of that, plus Dynasty, The Bonfire of the Vanities and sex, lies and videotape...
...same lesson, each student will sit down to an individual assignment, says Kevin O'Leary, president of educational-software giant the Learning Co. "If you thought of it conceptually as every child having a personal tutor, that's what we're aiming for." The school's server, or central computer, will maintain information on each student's progress and dole out the appropriate work when the child checks the Web page. At Pine Hill School in Sherborn, Mass., some teachers already give different assignments to students in the same classroom. "Most kids may be tested on 20 spelling words, while...
...websites and CD-ROMs for research projects, and wowing teachers with what they find. "Even at the best schools, you used to be limited by how much you could pack into one little library," says Judy Breck, an educator for 20 years and now the content master at Homework Central, a commercial homework-help website. "Now if you have Web access, you're only limited by what's known...
...ostensibly about substituting the euro for 11 national currencies and transferring responsibility for monetary policy from individual national central banks to a new European Central Bank, but the EMU's real importance is political. The advocates of the EMU see it as an important step toward creating a strong political union. The idea of a United States of Europe was conceived at the end of World War II by politicians who believed that abolishing national governments would prevent a repetition of the major wars that had engulfed Europe during the previous 75 years...
Slobodan Milosevic may have backed down rather than expel a Western monitor, but he's winning the game. "Milosevic wants to keep terrorizing Kosovo's Albanians, and the West wants to stop him but isn't prepared to do that by bombing," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "They're going to be so relieved that he's backed down over the monitors that they'll let him off the hook for last week's massacre...