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...think for a lot of people it’s not that easy to turn around and target a new group of people. I think the councillors represent certain interests….It’s not as if they can just turn on a dime now and appeal to students,” DeBergalis says...
...technology, and her team placed 50 wireless transceivers around the school--unassuming, almost unnoticeable little boxes that flooded the campus with wireless signals. Two grades, sixth and ninth, were selected to be the school's inaugural cybernauts. Their parents were required to buy laptops for them on their own dime: Apple iBooks for the sixth-graders, Dell Windows machines for the older kids--the idea was to give students a look at both sides of the personal computing world. To kick things off in style, the staff held an Out of the Box event at which the kids unpacked...
...just the right direction and receive a clear, high-speed Internet connection--even from the other side of the city. The cost? Less than $100 if you buy your own parts, which can include an empty Pringles can. After that, you pay nothing. Nada. Zippo. Not a dime in monthly access charges. You and your neighbors get free wi-fi Internet access, perhaps for life...
...epitome of the new economy, where the players worked hard and the workers played hard, all in a fuchsia-colored office turned Disneyland with all the caramel lattes you could swallow. There was oodles of money to be earned, even if the company didn't make a dime, and the best part was that you could have fun--real adolescent, prankster, thumb-your-nose-at-the-principal kind of junior high school fun. "Hey, we're working, and it's a party!" is how an employee, laid off when his video-services group was axed, remembers the dominant workplace ethos...
...with excerpts from favorite songs and books. "My bedroom is both a representation of me and has bits and pieces of all my friends," she says. It may not be a parent's idea of decorating, but it's one of a kind--and it didn't cost a dime. --With reporting by Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles