Word: specialize
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...were using it for. This is what every website wants to know. If it serves up 300,000 pages of information a day, does that mean 300,000 different people came to visit, or 50,000 who each visited six times? Glaser's techies tagged each user with a special ID number, or cookie, that identified them. Most big sites do the same thing, from Microsoft's to Time Warner's. But Real crossed the line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even...
...excited to see Nancy Gibbs refer to schools as "looking in a mirror, under bright lights" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 25]. It is true that kids have not changed. We as a society have. It is preposterous to believe that teenagers, adolescents and children are capable of determining their own distinct culture. They merely mirror the thoughts, ideas, attitudes and actions of adults--especially parents. Schools are the showcase displaying what our kids have learned--not only from teachers but from all of us. MATTHEW A. WERNER Union Mills...
Since the tragedy at Littleton, people have been searching for indicators that identify "troubled teens," such as black clothes, "hard" music, dyed hair and body piercing [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 25]. When will people realize that subscribing to such stereotypes will only exacerbate the problems already present in our high schools? I have dyed my hair many times since I began my freshman year. I have a nose ring, and I enjoy wearing black clothes. I also have a 3.88 G.P.A. We should be focusing our diagnostic attentions on the problematic sources that lurk at levels far below the superficiality...
...politics is local, and some of it is downright familial. Although the turnout for last week's local elections was tiny in places--11% of eligible voters in New York City cast a ballot--each electorate made itself heard in its own special...
Ireland, of course, has its own special chemistry. Domenica Alioto, 18, chose Trinity College Dublin because "none of the American schools I applied to really excited me the way Trinity did." The excitement is apparently catching: the number of all American students in Ireland, where there are only nine universities, has doubled in the past four years--to 1,160. Some may come to walk the same streets as did Joyce, Yeats, Swift or Wilde, or take in the enchanting architecture and countryside. Ivan Filbi, director of international student affairs at Trinity College Dublin, simply credits the quality...