Word: reporte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep the Harvard community informed, on-site contact people across campus will be calling into University Information Services during the early hours of Jan. 1 to report...
...most significant element of this report is putting the student needs first," Fineberg said...
...today, the World Wide Web is going to start living up to its name. That's the word from President Clinton, who on Thursday announced his goal to improve Internet access in minority communities. According to a 1999 Commerce Department report, there is a so-called "digital divide" in America, with blacks and Hispanics having sharply lower access than their white counterparts. And, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner, Clinton's interest will draw much-needed attention to the problem. "This is good stuff - precisely the kind of thing the President ought to be doing," says Quittner. "Americans are guaranteed...
Many civil rights advocates have long been troubled by the apparent inequities of Internet use, and May's Commerce report bears out their fears: 47 percent of whites own computers, but fewer than half as many blacks do. And, according to the study, it's not just economics that's keeping computers out of reach for so many minority kids. A child from a low-income white family is three times more likely to have Internet access than a child from a black family with a comparable income - and four times more likely than a Hispanic child. That disparity, says...
Further proof that timing is indeed everything came Wednesday for HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo. Normally, the release of a federal report on homelessness merits some polite yawns and space on page 17A. But bring it out amidst a Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton fight on the issue that has everyone interested (even noted wonk Rosie O'Donnell has used her show as an anti-Rudy soapbox) and suddenly we're all very intrigued...