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TAILOR-MADE ASSIGNMENTS. The most profound way homework will change is that instead of everybody heading home with the same lesson, each student will sit down to an individual assignment, says Kevin O'Leary, president of educational-software giant the Learning Co. "If you thought of it conceptually as every child having a personal tutor, that's what we're aiming for." The school's server, or central computer, will maintain information on each student's progress and dole out the appropriate work when the child checks the Web page. At Pine Hill School in Sherborn, Mass., some teachers already...
...This [gift] will enable us to take the giant step that will enable us to achieve national and international leadership in medical education," said Professor of Medicine Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, a scholar in residence at the institute and the former CEO of Beth Israel...
...problem is that there is no clear agreement, even among sober experts, of how bad the Y2K computer problem will be. Mike McClure, who is in charge of making sure that Georgia's electric-power giant Southern Co. is Y2K compliant, has the attitude of a lot of the techno-savvy elite. In safeguarding his personal affairs, McClure says he will be "very diligent" in keeping bank and stock records for the months prior to January 2000. He will file away his 401(k) statements and buy plenty of candles and water and withdraw several weeks' worth of cash...
...important that people in the business community learned that you can't run government like a business," Anderson said. "It was a giant briefing session; we weren't there to advise, but to become advised...
...buying Netscape. Microsoft immediately seized on this as proof that, in the rough-and-tumble world of software, you have to play rough sometimes or you will most certainly get tumbled. Further, Microsoft could now argue that it couldn't have a monopoly when faced with a giant competitor. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson was intrigued...