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...critical to ensuring that low-income Americans and those in rural areas gain access to the tools they need to compete in our information-age economy. Bringing technology to all Americans is the key to our future as a global competitor. We simply cannot stand by and allow our schoolchildren to be bypassed by the information highway. Discounts for schools and libraries mean education today and jobs tomorrow. It's an investment we must make. WILLIAM E. KENNARD, Chairman Federal Communications Commission Washington...
...cigarettes from a whole class of retail outlets. To counter efforts to kill the bill (led by Republican Senator DON NICKLES of Oklahoma), the White House will stage a massive rally on the South Lawn on Wednesday, at which the President and Vice President will meet with 1,000 schoolchildren. That, according to public-health advocates, is the number of kids who, out of the 3,000 minors beginning to smoke each day in America, will eventually die from smoking-related illnesses. "We want to make every Senator who votes against this look like he's against children," says...
...book, which chronicles Japanese atrocities in China in the 1930s, as "inaccurate," "distorted" and "erroneous." The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo later said Saito was objecting only to the suggestion that Japan has never apologized for its actions and has tried to keep the incident out of textbooks used by schoolchildren. Saito's attack on Chang has so far drawn fire from only a few organizations, but Tokyo is less concerned about Saito than about the damage the book may be doing to Japan's image in the U.S. at a time of trade and economic tensions between Washington and Tokyo...
...book, which chronicles Japanese atrocities in China in the 1930s, as ?inaccurate,? ?distorted? and ?erroneous.? The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo later said Saito was objecting only to the suggestion that Japan has never apologized for its actions and has tried to keep the incident out of textbooks used by schoolchildren...
America, don't beat up on yourself over the killings in Jonesboro. In Canada we also have violence and murder committed by schoolchildren. The U.S. has almost 50 million school-age youngsters. The acts of two or three should not be used to condemn the entire country. MICHAEL SILVERBROOKE North Vancouver...