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...other words, China's growing urgency to buy overseas assets (recent high-profile deals include Beijing-based computer maker Lenovo's purchase of IBM's PC business) in some cases may owe as much to government diktat as it does to sound business strategy. Managers of state-owned enterprises, in particular, answer first to Beijing for reasons that may have little to do with profit and loss. During the first 11 months of 2004, Chinese companies invested $1.8 billion abroad; 90% was by state firms...
...Virtual high schools, which allow students to take classes via PC, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative, particularly for on-the-go athletes. UMOHS has more than 400 students enrolled, 65% of whom are athletes. Accredited by the 100-year-old Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in Decatur, Georgia, UMOHS offers honors and advanced-placement classes. All course material is online, along with assignments and due dates. For help, says principal Howard Liebman, "a student may e-mail, instant message or call the teacher...
...question face-to-face with a teacher, but in some ways it prepares me better for college because I have to be more independent." A year ago, Hunt's world junior ranking was 886; now it's 110. Virtual high schools, which allow students to take classes via PC, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative, particularly for on-the-go athletes. umohs has more than 400 students enrolled, 65% of whom are athletes. Accredited by the 100-year-old Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore...
...hard-to-reach places--a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search--Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL--have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel, president of the search advisory firm Goebel Group...
Behind Kerik's Fall Plus: Ukraine's toxic politics; Snow's survival; IBM fires the PC; the great whiskey...