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Cynics are already calling it MSMIT. Software giant Microsoft is funding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a five-year, $25 million research venture called "Project I-Campus" to develop technology to enhance higher education. Projects under consideration include the improvement of long-distance learning via the Internet, web-based virtual museums and "global classrooms...
...strong. He meant the organism that leaves the most progeny [PALEONTOLOGY, Aug. 23]. For example, in our fast-frame media presentation of information, we are already selecting individuals who are better at clicking mouses. In a brave new world, only geeks with fast fingers will get to work at Microsoft and make mucho bucks and be millionaires, so they can impress Puget Sound bambinas, mate and have geeky bambinos with faster and longer fingers. Where have all the strong men gone? Long time passing... GEORGE CONESA Bellingham, Wash...
While a bloated, imperial operation could hardly be expected to pick up on warning signs, Gore insiders particularly fault Mark Penn, the lead among Gore's half a dozen pollsters. Penn shares his energies with the President, Hillary Clinton and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. Over and over, Penn told the Vice President that Bradley posed little or no threat, that Bush was not as far ahead as public polls suggested and that most voters were confusing the Texas Governor with his father. At one point, when Penn was insisting that Gore was no farther than 10 points behind Bush...
...billion How much Microsoft president Steve Ballmer lost last Thursday, after he said his 240 million Microsoft shares were overvalued...
...another problem. The women she does hire--and they are mostly women--tend to be well dressed and attractive. And sometimes that leads to romance with wealthy male clients. "If you've got executives and attractive single women, they're going to get together," she says. "Steve Ballmer of Microsoft married his p.r. person, and Ken Jacobs at Oracle married the head of p.r. for his company." It's another beautiful virtuous cycle...