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...Varian, professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, hardly disagrees. But he warns that to tap the full potential of the Internet, more vigilance is needed in public policy ?- this is no time to go on autopilot. "As the Internet reshapes the business work force, is a brain trust shortage in the offing? Absolutely," warns Varian. "We've got to improve education at every level: elementary, high school, college, and ?- I think most importantly ?- continuing on-the-job education...
...balloon afloat on the screen. The CD-ROM even has charts and graphs to track students' progress. A flexible program, it adapts the complexity of its language to the age of the budding typist, beginning at age eight. Someday I hope to become good enough to tap out a sonnet, one of the advanced options. But at the rate I'm going, let's just say I'm not holding my breath...
GIRL BANDS GO DIGITAL Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love may be yesterday's news, but that hasn't stopped gamemakers from developing the first titles to cash in on female rock sensations. Um Jammer Lammy for the Sony PlayStation ($35) lets players tap their game pad in time with the beat of progressively more complex sounds. (It's harder than you think.) For more of a story line, Lego Friends ($30, available mid-September) lets girls six and up form their own virtual band, compose songs and try to win a competition. Rock...
Amid the grim, impersonal regularity of natural disasters, we are often unmoved by statistics. It is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home. In the devastated town of Duzce, a British rescuer wedged deep in a narrow crevice heard a tap-tap-tap so close he could almost touch whoever was making the sound. Then an aftershock cascaded masonry through the 30-ft. tunnel as the rescuers slithered back out. When they took another route and reached the spot where the tapping had been heard, two dead bodies lay there. "It hurts when it ends like this," team...
...raised nearly $7 million for AIDS relief and prevention. Says Ronald Johnson, managing director for public policy and communications at Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City: "What is significant is their fund raising does not compete with local AIDS service organizations. They tap basically new money, and that's very important...