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...fourth-grader could gaze into a crystal ball and envision the college world he or she will enter in the year 2000, it would reveal a mixture of the surprising and the familiar. Dormitories would probably have the same kinds of sagging mattresses, desks and bookshelves that have furnished collegiate rooms for generations. School pennants and posters would likely be smeared across the walls. But there might be special TV consoles -- a few colleges have them now -- that could beam up taped lectures by any professor on campus or even let students monitor courses from other schools. Built-in computer...
There is, in fact, no need for a crystal ball to envision the university of the 21st century. Bit by logical bit, it is taking shape already on dozens of U.S. campuses as administrators begin to rethink their goals in light of a cost crunch that, recession or no, promises only to grow worse. From Kansas' Sterling College to Ohio's Youngstown State, from the huge State University of New York system (total enrollment: more than 369,000 on 23 campuses) to tiny Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage (639 students), officials are deciding not only how to do the same...
...lives to other men they had known 50 years earlier. Some of them tackled this task with the pomposity you would expect. Richard Walden Hale "finds that the best hobby is owning plenty of New England land." Ernest Blaney Dane wrote that "although his collection [of fine jade and crystal] is not as large as the one in the Metropolitan Museum, he believes it is finer...
...magazine ads in the fall, the adventurous Puzio will be shown on a solo vacation in India. And while the use of a "nonmodel" to promote a high-fashion scent may be unusual, Volupte isn't likely to turn up in your local bargain basement. A 1-oz. sculptured crystal flacon retails...
Cheap cash also allowed Japanese companies to fund costly research into technologies like semiconductors and liquid crystal displays that weren't likely to bring returns for many years to come. From 1986 to 1991, $3 trillion was spent on new plant and equipment, including robotics and other labor- saving manufacturing devices. An additional $600 billion went for research and development. And $167 billion more went abroad to build new manufacturing facilities and purchase such assets as Rockefeller Center, Columbia Pictures and automobile plants in the U.S. and England. But by 1989 there was concern in Japan that this real estate...