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...from President Clinton, who on Thursday announced his goal to improve Internet access in minority communities. According to a 1999 Commerce Department report, there is a so-called "digital divide" in America, with blacks and Hispanics having sharply lower access than their white counterparts. And, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner, Clinton's interest will draw much-needed attention to the problem. "This is good stuff - precisely the kind of thing the President ought to be doing," says Quittner. "Americans are guaranteed 'universal service' from the phone companies, and there's no reason the same shouldn't be true...
They will take the reins from Michael A. Kay '01, the current chair, and Joshua S. Goodman '00, the associate chair...
...crime, but that didn't keep another expert from using apocalyptic terms, predicting a continued rash of crime from an "electronic bestiary" of "locusts" (what the rest of us call criminals). So we're looking at a future of electronic fire and brimstone? Not likely, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "Whenever there's a high-tech law-enforcement convention somewhere, we hear cybercops sounding the alarm: Cybercrime is reaching a critical state and doomsday is upon us." It's tough to get worked into a frenzy, adds Quittner, when there's no evidence that any of these claims...
...blowup reflects a still-wide chasm between online and broadcast journalism. "This is a journalist who was born on the Web and is used to infusing his reports with his own beliefs," says TIME Digital editor Joshua Quittner. "While that's useful on the Internet, where we gravitate to those who are politically opinionated and even sensationalist, people like Drudge have a harder time surviving in the more limited realm of mass media." So Drudge, who harnessed a new medium to climb from gift shop clerk to columnist read by millions in a matter of years, retreats...
...cast a 19-year-old in the world's most coveted role--someone who is "self-determined, intelligent and forthright." Oh, and all for all of you non-Aryans, don't bother--the candidate must resemble Jake Lloyd. So there goes the talk of Leonardo DiCaprio, Ryan Phillipe and Joshua Jackson (too old) and pretty much every other established star in the universe (not intelligent...