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...tragic sacrifice with which some students justify their pre-med choices simply perpetuate the rampant "stereotypes that have plagued all Asian-Americans." It is very filially pious to honor your father by going into medicine because, as one student put it, "My father really wants me to go into medicine. He's given up too much in absolute terms for me...It'd be too cold not to honor that wish." It is quite another matter to claim that this mentality somehow breaks any mold...
...President Clinton plans to impose new tariffs on about $1 billion worth of Chinese imports. On Saturday, U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor will release a list of Chinese goods to be targeted, White House officials say. The hard-hitting action follows months of acrimonious back-and-forth on the rampant piracy of U.S. computer software, motion pictures, videos, sound recordings and periodicals in China -- something U.S. businesses say costs them hundreds of millions of dollars in fees annually. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says "the U.S. move is a ratcheting up of American pressure -- in effect a continuation...
...says Harvard is in no way the real world, where he believes discrimination is still rampant...
...worry. In the Gingrich camp, optimism runs rampant. Alvin Toffler and a few other seers prepared a "Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age" for the Progress and Freedom Foundation, which supports Gingrich. The authors dismiss in Tofflerian language those who fret about social balkanization in cyberspace as "Second Wave ideologues" (that is, Industrial Revolution dinosaurs, not clued in to the "Third Wave," the knowledge revolution). "Rather than being a centrifugal force helping to tear society apart, cyberspace can be one of the main forms of glue holding together an increasingly free and diverse society." The key to a "secure...
...when people no longer trudge off to factories or offices but sit at home in "electronic cottages," using their modems and faxes and keyboards to cruise cyberspace. These voluntary shut-ins are not merely customers anymore but "prosumers" using and adding to the daily flow of data. Synergies run rampant. The world is becoming the oyster of computer literates...