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...graduates or people from other industries--without having to acquire teaching degrees. Advocates of alternative certification like Silber push it as a way to increase the number and quality of interested teachers. But while 100,000 teachers have been licensed through alternative programs, union leaders remain cool to the idea: "If John Silber wants to take a job in any school in America, I'll help him get his alternative certification. But this is not how to attract better teachers," says Feldman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bite On Teachers | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

Wary of what he calls "philosophical catchwords," Schroder does not refer explicitly to the Third Way. The phrase seems to mean not simply a compromise between right and left but a synthesis of fiscal conservatism with social responsibility that can appeal across a broad middle. Schroder recognizes the idea in the rise of a like-minded international fraternity. "There's a mainstream of modern social democratic thinking, trying to find answers to the new questions arising from globalization," he says. "The main question is balance: how to modernize the society and modernize the economy and have social security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joining The Third Way | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...attractive idea. By the year 2000, according to the GartnerGroup, online consumer sales will reach $20 billion, an increase of 233% over this year's estimated $6.1 billion. And online commerce between companies (places like Boeing that now buy computers online from Dell) is growing even faster. In 1998, says the GartnerGroup, business-to-business trades over the Internet will total $15.6 billion--and by 2000 that figure will reach $175 billion. "The new economy," says Joe Carter, managing partner at Andersen Consulting, "could rapidly overtake the existing economy as we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Till You Drop | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...front-line businesses, this cerebral revolution has become very real. And very unpleasant. Talk to the folks at 230-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica, which two years ago dismissed its entire home sales force in North America after the arrival of the Internet at $8.50 a month made the idea of owning a $1,250, 32-volume set of books seem less appealing. Kids, everyone knew, were just as happy to get their information online or from a CD-ROM. In fact, they preferred it. The 170-year-old Journal of Commerce, which made most of its money from publishing shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Till You Drop | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...idea behind Amazon.com was devilishly simple: type in a book's title, the author's name or even just a general subject, and the site will present you with a list of every matching book in its database. Choose your title, type in your address and credit-card number, and service reps at Amazon.com's Seattle warehouse will find your order and mail it to you, usually within one or two days, and often at a hefty discount. Three years after launch, Amazon.com has 2.25 million worldwide customers, and sales that may reach $350 million this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click Till You Drop | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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