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...TAILOR-MADE ASSIGNMENTS. The most profound way homework will change is that instead of everybody heading home with the same lesson, each student will sit down to an individual assignment, says Kevin O'Leary, president of educational-software giant the Learning Co. "If you thought of it conceptually as every child having a personal tutor, that's what we're aiming for." The school's server, or central computer, will maintain information on each student's progress and dole out the appropriate work when the child checks the Web page. At Pine Hill School in Sherborn, Mass., some teachers already...
Like the majority of the 400 schools who use the IM, Harvard does not base its decisions entirely on the calculations of the formula, but chooses to custom tailor award packages to individual family circumstances...
...seeing a reverse tectonic shift. The digital revolution is starting to decentralize power and production, which permits more garage-based entrepreneurs and small businesses. It is also creating more tailored and personalized products, ranging from jeans and shoes shaped just for you to steel and widgets crafted for specific purposes. This is especially true in the information and entertainment industries: enterprising producers can make and distribute their own news, music, videos, recipe tips and political opinions; meanwhile, consumers can tap into (and sometimes even personally tailor) an exploding array of websites, information sources, entertainment options, cable channels and opinion outlets...
...WOLFE His book is paying the tailor, but at the National Book Awards, Updike took him to the cleaners...
...standardized extract of 20 herbs designed to support bowel function in general, or the individually prescribed herbs. After 16 weeks of treatment, the two groups that received herbal medicines had fewer symptoms and less pain than the placebo group. But 14 weeks later, only the group that received tailor-made herbal remedies still felt better...