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However, the contrasts between the proposed middle school and the VMI are huge. VMI had served as an elite gateway into military service, professional businesses and high-paying jobs. The proposed middle school is simply trying to level an uneven playing field by giving underprivileged black and Hispanic girls chances they may otherwise never...
...between costs and aid is not close enough. In most states the cost of education is controlled by one bureaucracy and the dispensing of financial aid by another; increases in aid almost always lag behind increases in costs. Moreover, the parents of students who use state universities as a gateway into the middle class are often unfamiliar with the process of putting together a financing mechanism. Also, some state-university systems have responded to budget cuts by simply reducing their student body. In 1992 and '93, to cite the most notorious example, the California State University system...
...FUTURE OF THE COUCH POTATO IS looking brighter--and more interactive. Crashed-out boob-tube watchers who hate to get up and use a computer will soon be able to channel- and Net-surf on the same screen. This week Gateway 2000, the PC direct marketer, will introduce the long-promised big-screen PC. The $4,000 Destination consists of a PC with a 31-in. monitor, a wireless keyboard and access to television signals and the Internet. Mix in a high-speed modem and a friendly interface that helps byte phobiacs navigate the Net, and you'd have interactive...
...TIME News Center on CompuServe will offer much more than the contents of this magazine. It will be CompuServe's primary gateway for news and current affairs, merging wire-service coverage of breaking news with headline stories updated and enhanced round-the-clock by TIME's correspondents. There will also be forums where subscribers can mix it up with TIME staff members, and online press conferences with celebrities, scientists, politicians, authors, government officials and other newsmakers. (To order a CompuServe starter kit, call...
...relied on figures obtained through questionnaires or by counting the number of Internet host computers and multiplying that by an estimated number of users per host--a fudge factor that is particularly difficult to measure when an Internet host computer can be anything from a single workstation to a gateway computer serving an entire university...