Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refuses to fit the stereotype. The Olympics are coming. Conventions continue to pour in, and companies such as Coca-Cola ad IBM continue to locate their headquarters in this booming city. Atlanta's regional theater, under the artistic direction of an African-American, was recently hailed nationally as the model for diversifying its audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists as Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote. Not bad for a population "so crippled...
Supporters of the NC note that most people don't need all the power offered by a Pentium system for tasks like word processing and e-mail. The NC will be based around the "network-centric" model, in which the Internet is at the heart of computing...
Most students already use the network-centric model in their daily lives. Undergraduate e-mail is stored in a central disk array in the Science Center, and students use telnet and Eudora to retrieve new messages. The data, and much of the processing load, is handled by the network, not the PC on your desktop...
This means that most students also understand the fatal flaw in the NC model: the assumed reliability of the network itself. Students who use the Internet for Web browsing and e-mail can live with "Site Not Found" and "Mail Server Unavailable" errors most of the time...
...council tackled a number of safety issues this fall, subsidizing the Rape Aggression Defense program (RAD), "Model Mugging" and helping to form HASTE, the Harvard Alliance for Safety Training and Education...