Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everybody hopes that the last months of the campaign will show rapid improvement in fundraising for the library and for professorships, and officials are developing strategies to speed up the process...
...point of the story is that I went back to school and infected my friends with the skill, and it then spread around the school with the speed of measles and pretty much the same epidemiological time course. I don't know whether the epidemic subsequently jumped to other schools (a boarding school is a somewhat isolated backwater of the meme pool). But I do know that my father originally picked up the Chinese-junk meme during an almost identical epidemic at the same school 25 years earlier. The earlier virus was launched by the school matron. Long after...
That's literally true in the case of ZapMe! Corp., which gives schools a free ride on the information superhighway, providing high-speed PCs, Internet access, laser printers and technical support. The catch? Students must use the computers for a minimum of four hours daily, while staring at a 2-in. x 4-in. billboard of rotating ads. Students earn "ZapPoints" that can be redeemed at an e-commerce mall. "There's a huge gap between what schools need and what they can afford," says Frank Vigil, president of the San Ramon-based company. "We want to provide the solution...
...rollerskates) because, hey, they could be "tres cool"; Marie endures awful things (like an affair with a bourgie creep) to confirm her dour view of the world. The stars shared the Best Actress prize at Cannes last year, and both are brilliant. But Bouchez's expressive face lets you speed-read each of a dozen moods in a few seconds. That's innate screen genius...
...skip the long lines and outrageous prices at theme parks and design your own instead. The Legoland CD-ROM ($30, available in July) lets kids ages six and up build castles, waterways and monuments, then see how "visitors" like their design. If roller coasters are more your speed, Microprose's RollerCoaster Tycoon ($30, available now) lets you build fantasy rides, carousels and haunted houses. But don't forget the snack stands; hungry patrons can get grumpy...