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...that unhappy with their public schools. So programs targeted at minority kids have become the new, more ambiguous school-choice battleground--one on which liberals don't always know which side to take. For some poor children, the chance to go to private school could be a life saver. But vouchers provide opportunity for just a few of them while siphoning off tax dollars from the public system inflicted on the rest. "Just 5,000 out of 70,000 kids may be lucky enough to get a voucher," says Cleveland city councilman Roosevelt Coats. "Why should 5,000 benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '96: PAROCHIAL POLITICS | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

Even if aspirin and Bordeaux turn out to be dead ends, a routine test for Lp(a) could prove a life-saver for men with other risk factors. The researchers found that study subjects with high levels of both Lp(a) and LDL had an especially high risk of premature heart disease. So even though such people can do nothing about their Lp(a) levels, lowering their LDL through a low-fat diet and drug treatment is more critical for them than it is for most people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD NEWS ON CHOLESTEROL | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...huge hard disks found on late-model PCs get just as cluttered as the area under the bed. Sure, that Christmas screen saver was great in December, but now it's just taking up space on your system, along with dozens of programs you've probably forgotten about...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: tech TALK | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...space for an opinionated attack on the consumers of 'porn,' as he chose to term it. Rather than the psychotic perverts he portrays, I suspect most downloaders of Internet pornography are rather like a very mild-mannered friend of mine who recently discussed with zeal the obscene screen-saver she had compiled as a joke for her roommate. I can think of at least seven people I know well, four women and three men, whom I know to have viewed computer pornography for their own entertainment and amusement. They are not, as the article would suggest, victims of "compulsive sexual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archaic Concept of Porn Flawed | 2/10/1995 | See Source »

...magazine? Dying to access Internet services like America Oh-Line? Books, computer games, and even Cybersmith T-shirts abound. Egotistical individuals, as well as those searching for grandparental gifts, can have their faces photograped and the images morphed, to be featured on a T-Shirt, mug, chase a screen saver depicting one's head as a bouncing ball. As Smith notes, "photographs no longer represent reality. They represent what you want them to represent...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: Under the Cushions Cyberspresso | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

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