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...account for nearly two-thirds of these projects' population, and many of them have fathers who are either missing, in prison or dead. The firemen, therefore, stand among a handful of male role models in this urban wasteland. On their days off, they drop by to tutor children in chess and math and to encourage them to stay in school. Most important, they offer discipline, tenderness and inspiration to a community where such things are in terribly short supply...
...sort of reverse adoption, each kid claims a fireman as his or her own. Some gravitate to Albert Shaw, who drives the truck and teaches chess at the kitchen table. Others crowd around Steve ("the Preacher") Ellerson, who gives haircuts and lectures on good grades. Andre Raiford, built like an oaken door, drills the children on multiplication tables. Each fireman imparts lessons in some area and helps enforce a strict behavior code. Swearing and drug dealing are prohibited. Faces must be clean, hair combed, hands washed. "All these kids know is what they see around the projects," says Lewis...
...Palm Pilot" digital planners package everything from Tokyo time to Bobby Fisher's chess strategies in an efficient bundle of computer chips the size of your average remote control. Much like the coveted television accessory, however, the rare compu-planners have become sour status symbols, as misunderstood as the channel changer left for dead in a garbage can when its batteries...
...game-like chess...
There is more than one good reason for Deep Blue to give Garry Kasparov a rematch [TECHNOLOGY, May 26]. First, the chess champion gave another chance to IBM when he defeated Deep Blue last year. Second, Kasparov is a dynamic player whose participation is instrumental to IBM's soaring reputation. PIERRE GARON Verdun...