Word: gore
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What keeps Al Gore up at night? A few months ago, the Vice President was literally jolted awake at 3 a.m. by the idea of a continuous, live Internet image of this planet, an all-earth-all-the-time website. Within weeks, NASA was scrambling to put up the satellites to make his dream come true. Last July 4 he skipped the fireworks so he could stare for five hours into his office computer as it downloaded Pathfinder's first images from the surface of Mars. Another Gore brainchild--he calls it "digital earth"--would allow students with computers...
...sometimes seems as if Gore views the world through his modem--and would like everyone else to do as well. His staff jokes that the quickest way to get his attention is by e-mail. But Gore is serious in his belief that technology educates and democratizes. It is both the hallmark of his vice presidency and the organizing principle of his presidential campaign...
...library in the country. He has heralded it as "a turning point that [will] transform the shape of America." But right now, the program is under assault from Congress as an out-of-control entitlement engineered by an out-of-control bureaucracy. Which does not do much for Gore's reputation as the architect of reinventing government. Even more ominous is another threat: starting this summer, phone companies that were ordered to pay for the program are threatening to add a new charge to the long-distance bills of residential consumers. Critics are already calling it the Gore...
Dingell's criticism is particularly searing in view of his liberal credentials and the fact that he was chairman of the committee when a promising young member named Al Gore was selling the intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would...
...blame inevitably finds its way to Gore, whose hand many see in virtually everything the FCC does. Its past chairman, Reed Hundt, goes back so far with Gore that the two of them saw the Beatles' first U.S. concert together. And Gore hand-picked its current chairman, William Kennard. Gore is also closely linked to the inner workings of the industry, where several of his former aides have found lucrative and powerful positions. Complains Louisiana Republican Billy Tauzin, chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee: "The FCC is an independent regulatory authority, yet we continue to see the Vice President exercising...