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...work is often used by teachers as an educational tool. That's one reason we created TIME FOR KIDS. A number of our journalists have become dual purpose. They donate a couple of hours every Tuesday during the school year to a program called Time to Read. Since its launch in 1985, TIME staff members, as well as those from other Time Inc. publications, have served as reading tutors to local public school students. The pupils read from a variety of our magazines, from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS to TEEN PEOPLE, enhancing their learning skills and perhaps developing into discerning...
...second wave of entrepreneurs is colonizing Silicon Valley. Why there? Because no place on earth is better equipped to set new businesses into motion than the Valley. And as the Internet has become more developed, the Valley's original generation of techies has given way to M.B.A.s looking to launch their business plans online. Many of them schooled at nearby Stanford University, as did Ratnesar and Stein, who plied their connections and met some of this year's Stanford Business School graduates in mid-launch process. They set up camp in San Francisco and made regular reconnaissance trips into...
...finally admits--six years after the fact--that it did launch pyrotechnic military tear-gas rounds into the Branch Davidian compound. However, as government caveats go, the devices did not cause any kind of fire or explosion within the besieged domicile. This is like crew members of the Enola Gay saying that although they did drop a certain atomic device over Hiroshima in 1945, the inevitable explosion was not a result of anything they did. Rather, the Japanese somehow nuked themselves. ROBERT GLENN Edmonds, Wash...
Gates and his wife decided to launch the program after Gray took them on a tour of schools and libraries in Alabama. "They saw the needs facing minority students," says Patty Stonesifer, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "The No. 1 issue time and time again was cost...
September is book-party season in New York City. But starving authors who used to move from shindig to shindig to get fed are finding the pickings a bit slim. Publishers have wearied of the big book launch, and now regard it as an unnecessary expense. Before this peculiar cultural event becomes obsolete, Notebook brings you a sociological study...