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...help others reach Pinnock's goal, the presidential disabilities committee has created a new tool: a Job Accommodations Network, which starting last October began offering help to those who want to become entrepreneurs. JAN offers free advice on how to obtain financing, purchase office equipment and help a business accommodate a disability, says Dale Brown, the service's program manager. A website with more extensive information is expected to be up and running by the middle of 1999. So far, the service has helped 51 disabled people with questions on how to start a business. The goal is to reach...
...advertisement playing on the telephone. Last week BroadPoint Communications introduced a service that gives consumers as much as two minutes of free long distance for every 10-to-15-sec. targeted ad they hear. Already 40,000 callers have surfed to www.broadpoint.com to fill out a detailed questionnaire and obtain a PIN for the 800 service, known as FreeWay. Of course, with long-distance rates already as low as 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute, listening to yet another Blockbuster or T.G.I. Friday's pitch may seem too high a price...
...guess again: It does indeed count -- especially when it pertains to counting. By a 5 to 4 vote, the Justices ruled on Monday that, for the purpose of apportioning congressional seats, the Census Bureau can't use estimates to determine the population of areas where it's difficult to obtain the actual number of residents. Writing for the conservative majority of the court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the language and history of the federal law governing the census cannot be interpreted to permit statistical adjustments. "The clear arithmetic of the decision," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley...
...first phase was using students' ID cards to obtain accurate meal counts in the dining halls, he says...
Under the internal policy, adopted last February, those wanting to use the Harvard name or insignia on a product must obtain permission from the Provost's office or the Office for Technology and Trademark Licensing. Fineberg said his office recently received its first requests of the fall, prompting the policy clarification, which Fineberg said he would officially release today...