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...have been allowed to deteriorate, and worker-training programs have fallen prey to budget austerity. For all the spending on computers and software ($800 billion in the U.S. during the past five years), the most obvious investment has not been made: ensuring that every schoolchild has a personal computer. Grove himself says this would be the most effective way to reboot education in America, yet he and others in the industry have been timid in enlisting in such a crusade...
...these challenges can be surmounted. Technology can even provide the tools to do so, if people supply the will. As Andy Grove says, technology is not inherently good or evil. It is only a tool for reflecting our values...
...smuggler betrayed him? "We thought, 'Shit, this is it.'" The man shouted again. Now at the limits of his courage, the boy finally answered: "Where are we?" "Austria," came the reply. The relief poured cool as the rain. Andras Grof, a name he would later Americanize to Andrew Grove, stood up and picked his way toward the future...
...doctor suggested surgery. Grove continued reading. "If this wasn't your life here," his wife said to him one morning as he pored over charts, "I'd say you were having fun." Well, Grove was kind of having fun--his scientific mind was engaged by the prostate-cancer research. A second doctor offered another opinion: radiation-seed therapy. Grove kept reading. "You know," says Eva, "I was surprised by how he reacted to the disease. Normally he's a baby. Anytime someone has a headache, he's saying, 'Oh, it's cancer.' But this time it really was cancer...
...Grove bet his life on a "smart bomb" of high-dose radiation, a new procedure that he felt offered the best chances. It seems to have put the cancer away for now. Grove won't say he's "recovered," just that levels of the telltale prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in his blood have sunk...