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Whether or not such new fee-based services will earn the following that Napster had at the height of its popularity remains to be seen. Among Harvard students, the reaction to last week's announcements is varied...
Where money does matter is in training costs. New York City will pay about $25,000 to attract and train each of its fellows, including paying for each recruit to earn a master's in education. In this year's budget, Levy requested $50 million to expand the program. Cities including San Jose, Calif.; Denver; Baton Rouge, La.; and Kansas City, Mo. will have fast-track programs by the end of the year. Critics say that money would be better spent on bonuses to retain teachers already on staff, a fifth of whom leave the profession after three years...
...School in Fairfax, Va., Matt would count the minutes until he could get home and focus on his real passion--computers. So after some prodding from his guidance counselor, Matt applied to the career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt quickly blossomed from a bit of an outcast who couldn't get his GPA above C level to a motivated and popular A student...
Consider telecom equipment maker Nortel. Last week it warned yet again that earnings would fall short. In fact it will lose money in the first quarter. Already hammered, the stock fell again, to $14, from around $40 in December. The consensus today is that Nortel will earn 14[cents] a share--down from expectations of 98[cents] four months ago, according to earnings tracker FirstCall. The revised earnings picture gives the stock a price/earning ratio of 100--more than twice its lofty P/E of 41 when the stock was much higher...
That kind of math plagues tech stocks across the board. Yet it's a mistake to think that way. It assumes that the nasty tech-spending slowdown dragging the economy into what feels like a recession will never end. It will. And when it does, the earnings prospects of market leaders like Nortel will improve rapidly. Factoring in a recovery, analysts estimate that Nortel will earn 58[cents] a share in 2002. On that estimate, its P/E is 24. Not bad for a company expected to grow 25% annually. That translates to a 0.96 PEG ratio, which is a measure...