Word: virtually
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...remained atop the few polls that have been made public, but his margin is small and the number of undecideds high. In any case, voters aren't likely to start paying attention to the race until just before the winner-take-all Sept. 15 primary. (Its victor has a virtual lock on the November general election.) By September, Gabrieli hopes, a summer's worth of provocative issue ads will have kicked in with voters. In a field of 10 candidates and as few as 100,000 people expected to cast ballots, 11,000 votes could conceivably be enough...
...disgraceful that baseball, a sport abounding with overpaid players, graces your cover while the virtual holocaust of famine occurring in Sudan is tucked inside. It is shameful that a sport and its millionaire players can warrant more of TIME's attention than 2.6 million starving Sudanese, of whom 350,000 may be facing death. KRISTIN CAM Springfield...
...multimedia director at ADM Productions Inc., a production and video company based in Port Washington, N.Y., is spending his Wednesday nights at school. He attends New York University's high-tech Center for Advanced Digital Applications in midtown Manhattan, where he is trying to create a swimming fish--a virtual fish, that is--for his final project. Even with a bachelor's degree in computer science and years of experience in graphics production and animation, Murphy still felt he needed to go back to college to further his career. And his company was more than willing to pay the bill...
Could distance learning ever replace traditional classroom education? You don't have to wait for the next century to answer this; you have to wait only until the fall. Western Governors University, a completely virtual college based in both Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, will be offering its first courses. Started by Governors from 18 Western states and encompassing the state universities in those areas, W.G.U. will initially offer continuing-education courses and associate degrees, says Jeff Edwards, marketing director for the school. There will be a con- centration on information technology courses, although at press time the catalog...
...gathered in a month without a modem. And that information may be better than anything you've ever seen. Carpoint.com the Microsoft website, lets you look at 3D, interactive pictures of the inside of dozens of sports cars--something you can't do anywhere in the real world. The virtual world, for all its hype and promise, is finally delivering on at least one big idea: information, at last, is at your fingertips. This is what explains--even justifies--Jerry and David's billions. More fingertips start their Web travels at Yahoo.com than at any other site...