Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoided digital cameras, which bypass film and shoot directly to disc, because the sub-$500 models are sub-snuff in the quality department. That left low-cost scanners (which convert paper photos to digital bits) and Picture CD, a new photo-to-digits service from Kodak and Intel that's being introduced this month...
...social promotion and make students repeat grades [EDUCATION, June 14]. We must also overcome the boundaries so carefully guarded by territorial educators and the makers of achievement tests. My 20-plus years of working with poorly skilled teens tell me that when reading comprehension and memory skills are low, there is no learning of any academic subject matter. JEANNE M. AGUIRRE Belleville...
...part will allow Bad Boy producers and rappers to work for Stoute on future records and videos. Stoute will drop the threat of a civil suit, but Combs is not out of the woods yet: he'll return to court in August to answer criminal charges. The relatively low settlement price is a sweet deal for Combs but carries enough concessions for Stoute to save face. And not least, it allows both sides to start putting the nasty publicity debacle behind them...
...caught too late or missed just as the system changed. But there will also be stories like that of Raynaldo Ramos. The nine-year-old immigrated a few years ago from Mexico. No English was spoken in his troubled and poor home, and his limited language skills made for low grades. But last fall, six student tutors from the U.C. Irvine English program came to his fourth-grade classroom. The teacher, Marisol Duarte, saw only subtle changes at first. But two months later, when the kids wrote their final poems of the term, Raynaldo's reading had jumped from first...
...automatically connects to a digital cellular network--or even a LAN--when you boot up, and it has a funky-looking antenna as well. The only catch: cellular can't operate at speeds faster than a tortoise-like 19.2 kbps. For now, the wireless experience is strictly for low-intensity surfers...