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...sixth-grade humanities class at New York City's Mott Hall, the noise level has reached cacophony. It's mostly animated chatter among the students as they put final touches on oral reports they will deliver in a few minutes. But another sound adds to the din: the staccato clicking of keys on computers. In this hard-knocks Washington Heights school, where a substantial number of the students qualify for free lunches, a hardwired revolution is taking shape. All the students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year...
...families to buy laptop computers but soon backpedaled from the proposal and called it "a nutty idea." In this low-income Manhattan neighborhood, the idea of 11-year-olds toting $1,500 laptops to school is so nutty that the school district plans to expand its laptop program from Mott Hall's 30 sixth-graders to more than 200 students in the next month. Not long ago, laptop computers were a luxury even administrators couldn't afford; now the district wants to make them as common as spiral notebooks in its classrooms. Superintendent Anthony Amato predicts that laptop computers will...
...people would have been afraid to criticize the pesticide DDT, which was considered safe until it was proved to cause cancer and then banned in the U.S. "Going back to Upton Sinclair and The Jungle, a free and open discourse about food safety has been critical," says Lawrie Mott, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and one of the authors of the Alar report. "With each of the major debates, we have seen reforms emerge...
...January '94, Paulson asked Mott to take on the then disappointing Cigar. Though bred for the turf, he behaved like a speed horse, so after four more unsuccessful races on the grass, the trainer decided to try him on dirt. Bingo. Cigar closed out the '94 season with two victories. But even then Mott wasn't aware of what he had. When Cigar and his jockey, Jerry Bailey, won the first of their 10 races together in '95, Mott and his family were vacationing in Costa Rica...
...weeks after that race, Bailey stopped by Mott's barn at Belmont, and the trainer asked him to get up on Cigar one more time, just to walk him around shed row for a few minutes. Says Mott: "I sort of wanted the two of them to savor their year together. None of us--not me, not Jerry, not Mr. Paulson--may ever be part of something so special and wonderful again...