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Kids taking a laptop to college apparently aren't making the best use of their parents' investment. Only a small fraction of the high school class of 1998 is thinking of a career in the lucrative field of computer science, preferring business, education and health services. With a shortage of qualified computer workers for jobs that are expected to double in number by 2006, students would be wise to log on and make the grade...
...keep coming back to Shakespeare? The hard truth is that most modern theatergoers can fully grasp only a fraction of his dense Elizabethan dialogue. Critics, moreover, seem intent on making the experience even more intimidating: they become stern schoolmasters when judging those who dare tackle the iambic pentameter. Alec Baldwin's brawny, quite watchable Macbeth at New York City's Public Theatre last winter drew testy reviews. Still the show was a sellout...
Hanssen praised the Bunting Fellowships as a welcome opportunity for women at Harvard, where she said the fraction of female tenured professors is "disappointing...
...team or even the Bulgarian soccer team (for those who remember USA '94). And yet those potential objects of national pride seem lilliputian in the face of constantly rising prices, falling incomes, lack of opportunities and the plethora of other problems. It is a pity that only a small fraction of the bright kids who leave the country ever come back, apparently finding immigrant life a better alternative to life in our troubled Bulgaria...
...discovery that rewrites two textbooks at once. That's evidently what happened last week at a scientific conference in Japan. An international team of 120 physicists reported that the neutrino, a subatomic particle long thought to be utterly without mass, actually weighs in at a tiny fraction of the mass of the electron (until now, the lightest particle known). For elementary-particle physicists, that means their most basic theories will have to be rewritten; for astronomers, it means that the missing "dark matter" believed to pervade the cosmos and far outweigh the visible stars may no longer be missing...