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...Princess Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, weds Lt. Philip Mountbatten in an elaborate ceremony. Students gather around radios at dawn to listen to a broadcast of the wedding...
...used the Internet nearly every day since September 1982. It's a great way to gather information, communicate and shop. And in one sense, the Internet is good for the American mind. Up through the early '90s, everyday written communication seemed to be dying out. Thanks to e-mail and fax machines, writing has come back. In this respect, the Internet could be a fine teaching tool--a way to share good, scarce writing teachers. One teacher could manage a whole district of students if they were all connected electronically...
...never met one parent or teacher or student or principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton...
...Michael Sandel writes, in this week's issue of The New Republic, "Sports stadiums are the cathedrals of our civil religion, public spaces that gather people from different walks of life in rituals of loss and hope, profanity and prayer." Remembering the last no-hitter at the 161st street ballyard evoked those images of spirituality and hope...
...will be the Procter & Gambles of the world." In some cases that is already happening. Last summer Mary Furlong, the founder of the nonprofit Senior Net educational centers, created the definitely-for-profit Third Age and thinks of it as "my grandmother's front porch," a place where people gather to hear news and swap information. With a database of more than 5,000 pages of free and discounted products and services and sponsors like Hallmark and Toys "R" Us, it's more like the mall of the future...