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...Wanna Join Our E-Study? Re "Logging on to the Ivy League" [April 27]: Granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today - notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
Szabados is quick to acknowledge, however, that not all the money has been well spent. There was the housing development built in a hurry in a wooded area south of town that now stands largely empty. "If we'd thought about it properly, we wouldn't have done it," she admits. Then there are the government-sponsored job-creation programs that failed to live up to their name, and the startups that quickly shut down again because they depended more on government subsidies than on a smart business plan. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Money Isn't Everything In short, Halle has learned that throwing money at an economic meltdown isn't a cure-all. To be sure, some towns in the old GDR have done well. In the Saxon heartland, where the local economy had strong roots going back to before World War II, Dresden has turned itself into a world center for semiconductors, Leipzig has attracted automakers including BMW and Porsche, and Jena has successfully built on the reputation of its optical firm, Carl Zeiss. But for the most part, eastern Germany is still far from resembling the "blossoming landscapes" that former...
...watering can across the economic landscape. But the fact remains that when the communist state collapsed, the urgent issue at hand was how to integrate 17 million East Germans into a suddenly reunified country, and quickly. Despite some lingering resentment in both east and west, that work is done. In a line policymakers today might take to heart, Zimmerman of the DIW says that the infusion of cash to the east "wasn't a failure. The problem is that the expectations were too high...
...Wanna Join Our E-Study? Re "Logging On To The Ivy Leagues" [April 27]: granting degrees to students who qualify through online study is merely acknowledging the actualities of university study today - notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. John Leone, San Diego...