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...lord Pablo Escobar. The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas. But the experience that perhaps marked him most came six months later, in October 1993, in downtown Mogadishu. He and his troops were there when 18 soldiers died in an effort to snatch a Somali warlord--a tough day immortalized in Mark Bowden's book Black Hawk Down. Boykin told a Florida audience last year that he collapsed in his bunk that day, angry that...
...school of the future, the Packer Collegiate Institute has a pretty fancy past. It was founded in 1845 (it's the oldest independent school in Brooklyn) and it occupies a cluster of architecturally distinguished buildings in downtown Brooklyn, including a 19th century church complete with vaulted ceilings and stained-glass windows. Packer has an impressive pedigree, a highly competitive admissions policy and an extremely hefty tuition bill, and in 1999 the school's administrators took a look at their computer lab and deemed it unworthy of the Packer name. The staff decided that to keep pace with the galloping ubiquity...
...other stuff, the games and the "talking" and the God knows what else, it doesn't scare her. It's an urban campus, she points out, in a busy downtown neighborhood. "They don't have a street corner where all the kids can hang out. Inside the computer is their street corner." She compares it to listening to the Grateful Dead when she was growing up in the 1970s, back when rock 'n' roll was still new and computers were safely confined to the fallout shelter. After all, she argues, all teenagers of every era have something that they...
True, but that somebody could be the taxpayers if, as some propose, the government were to subsidize free wi-fi as a public utility--which is already happening in downtown business districts as diverse as Long Beach, Calif., and Athens, Ga. That may sound radical, but federal intervention at some level will probably be necessary if wi-fi is ever to become as widely available as the wired Internet is today. For one thing, wi-fi operates on a radio band that is already terribly overcrowded. "We need federal help," says Pozar, "or this is going to turn into just...
...CHICAGO: Angela's Charter Service Skate around the harbor on the 60-ft. SunSea, which, unique for a boat this length, can pass through the locks and up the Chicago River to downtown. Six hours costs $1,800 for 20 people...