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Acronym alert: The Japanese hosts wanted to make this an Internet summit (even though Prime Minister Mori only learned to use a mouse a few months ago), so the summiteers issued an Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society and promised to do more to wire the developing world. Beforehand, U.S. officials stopped talking about bridging the "digital divide" that threatens to separate rich countries from poor, but instead started pushing the idea of creating more "digital opportunity" for developing countries. Reason: At Okinawa, they announced they were forming a new Digital Opportunity Task Force, or DOT Force...
...fund the building of an 853-ft. colossus--49 ft. longer than the ill-fated Hindenburg. "I've been watching the airship industry for 15 years, and now it's getting very exciting," says Christian Schulthess, who for 20 years was a pilot with Balair-CTA, the charter subsidiary of Swissair. He is now president of Skyship Cruises in Switzerland, which ordered the first Zeppelin. "CargoLifter and Rigid Airship Design get your imagination going," he says, "and here the Zeppelins are really flying...
...trip also allowed us to hear, from a very local perspective, some of the great issues we face as a nation. We listened to blacks and whites talk about community policing in racially divided Cape Girardeau, Mo.; parents debate a charter school in Osceola, Ark.; Ron Stodghill's father talk about the possibility of building a boarding school in the poor St. Louis, Mo., district where he is a superintendent; and the warden of the prison in Angola, La., describe his mixed feelings about the death penalty and life without parole...
...shelved, enter the regular folk whose stories will be used to trumpet the Bush agenda. As one aide-de-Dubya put it, the emphasis is on "nontraditional groups," i.e., "lots of women, lots of minorities." The first night will feature students from the mostly Hispanic KIPP Academy, a Houston charter school that Bush frequently touts. Finally, there's the entertainment. Instead of the usual G.O.P. country-and-western fare, planners have suggested trying to land Ricky Martin or the Backstreet Boys. It sort of makes one long for the Old Kind of Republican...
OSCEOLA, ARK. A parent-backed charter school effort gets knocked down...