Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will those parents clutching vouchers go? Not to Andover, which costs more than $20,000 annually. Not to the suburbs, where many may resent vouchers as busing by other means. Poor parents could be fighting to get into too few existing schools and end up in cobbled-together, strip-mall operations of dubious quality. But Forstmann says, "Public schools will get better as they are forced to compete. Keep politics out of the equation, and resistance to alternatives will melt away...
...RATS HERE ARE GREEN Eco Mall www.ecomall.com) like its real-world counterparts, is a great place to browse, be entertained or just hang out. And you'll be linked to all sorts of useful environmental sites. For example, click on "Eco Investments" for mutual funds specializing in the stocks of companies judged to be environmentally responsible, or "Energy Efficient Homes" for a handy list of eco-conscious designers and architects...
...providing high-speed PCs, Internet access, laser printers and technical support. The catch? Students must use the computers for a minimum of four hours daily, while staring at a 2-in. x 4-in. billboard of rotating ads. Students earn "ZapPoints" that can be redeemed at an e-commerce mall. "There's a huge gap between what schools need and what they can afford," says Frank Vigil, president of the San Ramon-based company. "We want to provide the solution." He has signed up 5,000 schools in his first four months of marketing...
...fragrances, underwear and eyeglasses from any of these designers won't be appearing on highway billboards anytime soon. All are pursuing the kind of niche strategies that fashion watchers argue is the key to longevity in today's market. That's fine--the mall was already way too crowded...
Science fiction boasts an impressive predictive track record--if you squint hard and ignore most of the evidence. Atom bombs, spacecraft, comsats, credit cards, jukeboxes, waterbeds, gene splicing--they all appeared in science fiction first, well before showing up at the mall or on the military base. But science fiction is visionary by design and prophetic only by accident. You'll have a hard time finding androids, aliens, time travelers or psychic powers at the K-mart, even though science-fiction writers have obsessed about them for 70 years...