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...writings about the Bard's life and times. Jacqui D'Aiutolo circles the room as her students work. She has been teaching Macbeth for more than 15 years and, though she first regarded computers and literature as ``strange bedfellows,'' she has been amazed to see how students can deploy this modern tool to plumb the meaning of old texts. She has found that her own role has changed: she is less a lecturer than a resource and guide, helping students refine their own questions and assisting in their search for answers. The incisiveness of their work has stunned her. Says...
Even before he figures out how to deploy his spies, Carns will have to deal with the bureaucratic miasma of the agency. Morale is at rock bottom. Young case officers are privately demanding a housecleaning of top officials in the clandestine Directorate for Operations, whose lax management and protective culture allowed Aldrich Ames to get away with selling secrets to Moscow for nine years. Last December the CIA settled a lawsuit with former Jamaican station chief Janine Brookner for $410,000 plus lawyers' fees. Brookner claimed she was denied promotions after she disciplined subordinates for drinking, carousing...
Software giant Microsofttoday announced alliances with 10 companies -- including phone giant U S West and Germany's Deutsche Telekom, the world's largest cable company -- to test and deploy itsworldwide interactive TV. Part of the deals: Hewlett-Packard and NEC will join General Instrument in developing TV set-top boxes compatible with the Microsoft's Tiger TV software system. Some industry analysts think Microsoft, seen as lagging behind similar interactive projects from Time Warner, Viacom,Bell Atlanticand others, might now be poised to pull ahead. The company's chief, Bill Gates, predicts a mass market for interactive television in five...
...that sounds like a prescription for predetermination, even fatalism, Wright points out that what is natural is not necessarily unchangeable. "The good news," he says, "is that qualities like conscience and a sense of justice have a biological basis. The bad news is that we are designed to deploy these gifts in self-serving ways -- at least sometimes. We can't counteract genes until we know more about them." Learning more about basic issues in science and technology has been a lifelong passion for Wright, 37. His first book was Three Scientists and Their Gods (1988), which alternated profiles with...
...face of a rapid deployment of American force in the Persian Gulf, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ordered a retreat of the well-equipped Republican Guard divisions that had been menacing the Kuwaiti border. The pullback was not complete, however, and the U.S. announced it would deploy a total of 36,000 ground troops to the Gulf and began to search for a permanent solution to Iraqi aggression against Kuwait...