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...concerns that the measure could create invincible media giants and hurt consumers, the Senate passed, 81 to 18, a sweeping measure that would deregulate the telephone, cable and broadcasting industries and allow companies to enter one another's fields of business. The bill also seeks to stamp out high-tech smut. One provision would impose tough penalties on people who transmit obscene or indecent materials over computer networks...
There is nothing new about such conceits, of course. "Snobbery and gardening have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years," argues Pollan. There have always been those who plant old roses with good bloodlines, he explains, and those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler Imperial-"a rose named after a car, for God's sake." What's different today, he observes, is that gardening has become such a fad. "You can pour vast sums of money into an acre of land and acquire the patina of sophisticated gardening very quickly." Horticultural social climbers speedily...
Other schools such as Georgia Tech have taken the initiative in utilizing the Internet. Reed says he thinks the school receives most of its applications by modem...
...programs directed towards analytical thinking or to be scrapped entirely. We believe that the second possibility is far more plausible. Finding and pursuing a uniform vision of analytical thinking could certainly help students, but how could so many professors be forced to conform to such an ideal? Those who tech well and help students to think do so without any goading or instruction from...
...private sector should make its owndecisions," Whitsett says. "Grants for commercialtechnology [i.e., the ATP] provide an unfairadvantage not given through strict competition. Inthe case of the ATP, most of the money has gone tohigh-tech firms where assistance is really notneeded...