Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WIRING THE HAVE-NOTS. As computers become the homework tool of choice, educators worry about children who don't have access to the technology. "The kids who don't have computers at home will be at such a fundamental disadvantage. It will be as if they don't have a pen or paper," says Elliot Soloway, a professor at the University of Michigan. He just finished a study in which Internet TVs were placed in the homes of a class of Detroit public-school students, and found it not only benefited the kids but boosted parental involvement as well...
...help others reach Pinnock's goal, the presidential disabilities committee has created a new tool: a Job Accommodations Network, which starting last October began offering help to those who want to become entrepreneurs. JAN offers free advice on how to obtain financing, purchase office equipment and help a business accommodate a disability, says Dale Brown, the service's program manager. A website with more extensive information is expected to be up and running by the middle of 1999. So far, the service has helped 51 disabled people with questions on how to start a business. The goal is to reach...
Stratfor president George Friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforcing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymaster's dream. Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in Ukraine. "As soon as that report runs, we'll suddenly get 500 new Internet sign-ups from Ukraine," says Friedman, a former political science professor. "And we'll hear back from some of them." Open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good...
Although virtual patient technology means that students are not interacting with real patients, Rabkin said the tool prepares students for a wide variety of situations and makes the time they spend interacting with patients more productive...
...University of Wisconsin managed to isolate stem cells and get them to grow into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. The process still can't be controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations. But if efforts to understand and master stem-cell development prove successful, doctors will have a therapeutic tool of incredible power...