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...hand-held computers give students Internet access and allow teachers to "beam" them their grades and homework assignments. Add-ons include a "due yesterday" feature that dings when schoolwork is tardy and an attachable probe that measures pH in science labs. At River Hill High School, in Clarksville, Md., parents can use their children's devices to check on grades. But some students at other schools have gravitated toward less scholarly applications--beaming notes to one another in class...
Coach U is by far the largest coach-training institute, but there are at least 12 others. They include the Academy for Coach Training in Bellevue, Wash., and the Newfield Network in Silver Spring, Md.; both offer in-person workshops as well as teleclasses. Coaching's rise is just beginning, predicts Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, a research scientist at M.I.T. who studies workplace change. "It's a vehicle for the transfer of knowledge and skills. And in a knowledge-based economy, it will be increasingly important...
...only regret about the Lieberman nomination is that my parents didn't live to see it. PHILIP R. HOCHBERG Rockville, Md...
...those golden oldies are still around, including Dominique Dawes, 23, Ray's training partner and friend who came out of retirement to rejoin the team. The two have been close since the day a reluctant Ray, then 13, was dropped off crying at Hill's Gymnastics in Gaithersburg, Md., where Dawes trained. "She didn't want to leave her friends at her other gym," recalls her coach, Kelli Hill, of Ray's first visit...
When Rachel and I bought and renovated this 1935 Cape Cod in Bethesda, Md., three years ago, we did the usual engineering, radon and termite inspections. But like most other new homeowners, we knew nothing about what might be brewing behind the walls. Neither of us had any symptoms that might indicate this was a sick house. We had had a series of roof leaks over the past year, though. Were we next...