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Change must also overcome the nation's far-flung and highly fragmented education system, with nearly 15,000 school districts and countless interest groups weighing in on education policies. In the past, the system has lengthened the school year to meet more ambitious education goals: from 130 days in 1870 to 155 days in 1910, 170 days in 1930 and, finally, 180 days in 1950. The system could do so again...
...Berners-Lee, now back at CERN, one attraction of the Internet was that it encompassed not just CERN but CERN's far-flung collaborators at labs around the world. "In 1989, I thought, look, it would be so much easier if everybody asking me questions all the time could just read my database, and it would be so much nicer if I could find out what these guys are doing by just jumping into a similar database of information for them." In other words: give everyone the power to Enquire...
...sake of their own education, one might claim. If they want to submit their essays for prizes or hand out copies for their friends and associates to read, they ought to be encouraged to do so. But to make academic writing into a shared classroom experience--to create a far-flung "community of readers"--would be to compromise the process and waste time...
...venture, funded by Spielberg and DreamWorks, Sega Enterprises and Universal Studios, plans to open 40 locations by the year 2002, at about $10 million a pop, in other U.S. cities as well as far-flung places like Brazil. Next up: an even bigger arcade in Las Vegas, although the GameWorks creators don't like to think of their gaming spaces as arcades. "It's truly a unique social environment, and that's what's missing from the arcade experience," says GameWorks' president, Michael Montgomery. In other words, parents and kids can pursue separate game paths under one roof and call...
China before Deng may have been poor, but everyone was equally in need. Now, around the corner from Shanghai's glittering Golden Age club, those forgotten by the economic boom gather under the eaves of the central railway station. There, a "floating population" of the destitute from far-flung corners of the nation arrives by the carload, hoping that Shanghai will be the land of plenty. Ran Yigang, a scruffy 23-year-old with the thick hands of a farm laborer, got off the train last week from Anhui, one of the poorest provinces. All day he searched in vain...