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Harvard students swept the 12-question exam last December, taking four of the six "Fellows" awards, which carry a $2,500 scholarship for high individual scores, and capturing a total of fourteen out of the top 58 individual scores...
...actual educational value is debatable. Kids certainly won't learn basic math and reading skills by surfing the Web. Conducting research on the Internet is, for the most part, tedious and unreliable. A good library is often a better substitute. Cheaper, too. According to an estimate by McKinsey & Co., total costs of the technology (which includes the costs of staffing, training, upgrading and replacing equipment) could range from $14 billion to $47 billion in initial outlays and another $4 billion to $14 billion in annual operating expenses, depending on how extensive the school computer systems are. That money could...
...Master of Eliot House Kristine L. Forsgard said her position as deputy director of academic programs at the School of Public Health meant that she shared Lewis' concerns about the dangers of smoking. But she hesitated to support a total ban, though she said Eliot House already forbids smoking in common rooms...
...Bill Clinton, another comes back to life. Representative Dan Burton's campaign-finance team is set in coming days to depose presidential pal Webster Hubbell on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition Burton will focus on payments...
...number is in, and it's big: $335.5 million. That's the Internet Advertising Bureau's final tally, released today, for advertising sold online in the final quarter of 1997. It brings the year's total to $907 million, up a hefty 240 percent from the previous year. But is it believable? Even Peter Storck, head analyst for online advertising at Jupiter Communications -- whose own prediction last June of $940 million was amazingly prescient -- is skeptical. "Don't forget that the IAB's mission is to promote online advertising," he points out. "The reporting members have a stake in making...