Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Music is for me a constant wonderment and...a constant search," he said...
...dumping ground for bottom-end students, is more popular than ever, and most students taking shop today aren't interested in becoming mechanics or engineers. Students of all abilities--mostly boys but a growing number of girls too--flock to this faraway corner of the school in search of less structure and more responsibility, a place where they get to move around and use their hands. "In a lot of classes, it's 'Do this' or 'Do that,'" says Joe, "but in auto shop you know what you need to do when you come in here...
...team in the northeast corner has been assigned the bomb threat, which actually happened more than a year ago. The school was evacuated, but search dogs found no bomb. Police did, however, catch the boys who called in the threat, one a Webster student, who was expelled. It gets the teachers talking about security in general--and Columbine in particular. "The bombs at Columbine were planted beforehand, at night, when there wouldn't be any witnesses," says Ken Winingham, who teaches psychology. "Our school is wide open at night. If you want to plant a bomb here...
...portal when you can build your own? Internet incubator CMGI will unveil a beefed-up version of its AltaVista search engine today. Promotion spending for the next nine months is budgeted at $120 million, $8 million of which will be spent today. That's a lot of money, for sure, but it's still much cheaper than getting a portal on the open market. Yahoo wanna-be Lycos, another big CMGI investment, is currently worth $5 billion now, with the real Yahoo currently trading at nearly nine times that figure...
...about time that AltaVista got some serious support. The service began as a tech experiment at the former Digital, but through deals with Yahoo it established itself early on as the most thorough search index of the Web. Digital and then Compaq tried to capitalize on the Top 10 traffic by adding "stickier" features such as subject directories and free e-mail, but that only created opportunities for new index companies like Inktomi, and now Google, to service the established portals - even while the attempts at a fuller AltaVista site floundered. MORE...