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...shortage? There are few hard facts, but lots of theories. Anecdotal evidence suggests that more men than women respond to the lure of high-tech jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree. Some call this the Bill Gates syndrome, after the college-dropout chairman of Microsoft. But high-tech industries employ only about 9% of the U.S. work force. Amid the hot economy of recent years, a larger group of men - especially those from lower-income families - might be heading straight from high school into fields like aircraft mechanics and telephone- and power-line repair that...
...success of her efforts. As part of Virginia's high-stakes testing program, schools that don't boost their scores by the year 2007 could lose state funding. So Fairfax City, just 18 miles southwest of the White House, has upgraded its two crumbling elementary schools with new high-tech television studios, computer labs and one very old feature - mandatory Latin...
...least 24 schools, ranging from Brown University to Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois, will be represented on the show. Georgia Tech, Emory University and MIT will each be represented by two students. Only Harvard has three students appearing...
...teen used to hang out near airports watching planes take off and land, has been in love with the airline business his whole life. The son of an international-business executive, he grew up in Hong Kong, Belgium, Britain and Singapore. After graduating with a management degree from Georgia Tech in 1983, he used $15,000 from his dad to help start a company that chartered planes to larger airlines. He sold out five years later and became an industry consultant. Four years after that, his Atlanta-based boss, Hollis Harris, was named Air Canada president, a job he held...
...VEGAS Every autumn, as sure as leaves fall and sitcoms get canceled, 200,000 geeks descend on this city for COMDEX, the biggest high-tech trade show of the year, to get a preview of next year's whizzy gadgets. We tagged along, and here's what...