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...month, some 6 million visitors flock to eBay's sprawling virtual tag sale, according to research firm Media Metrix, right behind Amazon's 8 million. A third of those browsers regularly bid on or sell a selection of nearly 2 million items, including computers, Ginsu knives, baseball cards and model trains, generating about $300 million in total transactions during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each of those exchanges, eBay...
Indeed, Chicago represents a role model for success in mayoral school takeovers. Its public school system, branded the worst in the nation in 1987 by U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, had physically dilapidated schools and churned out students ill-prepared for the work force or college. By the mid-'90s, students were testing some 70% below the national average in reading and math, and nearly 6% were chronically truant. And kids could always plan for a few extra days of summer vacation as teacher strife over pay would invariably grind into a strike...
Medical schools across the country are offering courses that take students out of large lectures and turn them from doodlers into detectives--following a model designed by Harvard Medical School (HMS) over a decade...
Medical schools across the country are offering courses that take students out of large lectures and turn them from doodlers into detectives following a model designed by Harvard Medical School (HMS) over a decade...
DRIVE ON Now that gasoline prices are on the rise, you might want to consider trading in that gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicle for a more fuel-efficient model--perhaps the 1999 Honda Civic, which gets around 35 m.p.g. and was cited as the best "green" vehicle in the new Consumer Reports annual automotive survey. As an alternative, you could choose the Volkswagen Passat, named the best family sedan; the Mazda Protege, the favorite small sedan; or the Subaru Forester, the best small...