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...bouncing along in Chelsea, Michigan. General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
Radcliffe College seeks to support and study the work of women both through its educational programs and its Institutes for Advanced Study. Its educational programs include the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies, the world-renowned Radcliffe Publishing Course, the Radcliffe Seminars and abundant programs designed for undergraduates such as Education for Action, the Harvard and Radcliffe Science Alliance and the Radcliffe Research Partnership Program, to name just a few. The college also provides numerous fellowships and grants that fund student projects, from senior theses to international travel...
Designed to run on a range of palmtops from various manufacturers (but not the Pilot), Windows CE will bring a Windows 95-like environment to PDAs, allowing for common software development and communication. Bill Gates and friends have lined up a consortium of manufacturers to use Windows CE as the platform of choice for their PDAs...
...fact, a new spirit of compromise is evident across the country. Albert Shanker, the longtime head of the A.F.T. who was once a symbol of teacher militancy, has been quick to support such contested measures as teacher standards. In Illinois 40 school districts belong to the Consortium for Education Change, begun by the state N.E.A. affiliate, which promotes cooperative efforts among unions, schools and parents. In Glenview, Illinois, for example, teachers have adopted a "constitution" rather than a contract and become active participants in reform...
Even this tradeoff may prove unyielding. Last week the state-owned Aviation Industry of China announced it was granting a contract worth an estimated $2 billion to a Europe-Singapore consortium to build 100-seat jetliners. And in April, during a visit to Paris, Prime Minister Li Peng also snubbed Boeing by approving a deal to buy 33 French-built Airbus planes. It was a not so subtle message to the U.S. to back off its criticism of China's trade and human-rights policies...