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...speeches, Levin likes to tell listeners about a game that H.G. Wells invented called Cheat the Prophet. Here's how to play: gather the smartest group of futurists you can find, ask them to describe the future, proceed to go out and undertake everything the futurists consider unthinkable or downright laughable. That's been Levin's career--and Case's. For decades the idea that every home in America would be wired with cable--or connected to a subscription online service--seemed unreasonable and even laughable in many minds...
Educators who help their students cheat are a tiny minority. Teachers' union leaders disputed the cheating charges in New York City last week, claiming they were based on the unproved allegations of children and, in any event, do not constitute a "sweeping indictment of the entire system." Still, the temptation to cheat seems to be growing among teachers, who are being held accountable if their students don't measure up. "Anytime you have this kind of mounting pressure about getting children to a standard," says New York City's school chancellor, Rudy Crew, "it shouldn't come as any wonder...
...learned how to succeed on the school's terms. She says the principal's underlings gave her a list of students along with the order "to make sure they passed" standardized reading exams. On the mornings of such exams, she was given a 2-in. by 3-in. cheat sheet. She would then have the students put their answers first on loose-leaf paper, so she could check them before they filled in the bubble sheets. "It was kind of like the Mafia," she says, explaining why she went along with the scheme. "Once you were in, you were...
...going undercover and taking part in a 17-month probe that has exposed a shameful side of New York City's public school system. A special investigator, Edward Stancik, alleges that two principals and 50 other educators at 32 elementary and middle schools helped students cheat on standardized tests. Some hinted broadly at correct answers while students were taking the test; others used the scrap-paper method to avoid the multiple erasures that often indicate cheating; a few even changed answers after their students turned in the exams. The motive is not hard to discern. Teachers, particularly in the early...
With a handful of fellow junkies (including his friend Ken Sugimori, who would eventually draw all the Pokemon), Tajiri began a magazine called GameFreak in 1982 to publicize tips and cheat codes of their favorite games. "Our conclusion was," he says, "there weren't too many good-quality games, so let's make our own." He took apart a Nintendo system to figure out how to make the games himself. Then, in 1991, he discovered Nintendo's Game Boy and its prize feature: a cable that could link any two Game Boys together. "I imagined an insect moving back...