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Christopher Whittle has a high-tech answer for the problem of cultural illiteracy among American students. Beginning next month, his Knoxville-based Whittle Communications firm will beam Channel One, a slick news program for teenagers, directly into schools for a seven-week test period. Whittle has provided each of the six pilot schools with $50,000 worth of television sets and satellite equipment to use as they wish. The only requirement: each day students will have to watch a twelve-minute Channel One broadcast -- including two minutes...
...both sides of the street, signs advertise "Condominiums Available" and "Now Leasing Office Space." High-rise condominiums, towering office buildings and sleek mini-shopping centers with high-tech stores and trendy boutiques dot the landscape...
...while most people say that the changes are not for the worse, they add that the pace has quickened for this once-slow stretch between two of Cambridge's busiest areas. A new, high-tech way of life has moved in, with an upscale grocery store, a compact disc shop and futon vendors now lining the street...
...example, when the Orson Welles Cinema, an independent movie theater located on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Dana St., burned down in the spring of 1986, it was eventually replaced by a host of new high-tech, upscale stores such as Videosmith, Digital Record, Toppers and The Furniture Store...
Contrary to the unbuttoned, indulgent style at many agencies, CAA operates with the crisp, well-coordinated teamwork of a Japanese high-tech firm. What adds to the agency's mystique is that Ovitz is extremely press shy. In the first extended interview he has ever given, he described his agency's unusual philosophy to TIME correspondent Elaine Dutka: "Some companies believe that internal competition helps the bottom line, but I'm not of that school. We try to take the paternal approach of the Japanese, who take care of their own, and temper that with Western creativity and ingenuity...