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Some educators are trying to find a way to channel all that creative energy. Education-technology researcher Barry Kort administers a child-oriented MUD in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where children learn by doing. Among its virtual worlds are the Land of Oz and a model of Yellowstone National Park, complete with spouting geysers and wandering moose. The Yellowstone world was built by a nine-year-old boy just back from a family vacation. "Instead of writing about what he did on his summer vacation," says Kort, "he built a working model of his summer vacation...
...have the desired effect for many no-frills subscribers: instead of going down, their bills went up. Cable companies that had charged below the benchmark price for basic cable raised those rates to compensate for the lower prices the new law forced them to charge for equipment such as channel converters and remote controls...
Nearly two years after the start of official peace talks, first in Madrid and later in Washington, deadlocked negotiations lent special urgency to the back-channel talks. Immediately after meeting Kriah, Hirschfeld called a high- ranking friend, Yossi Beilin, Deputy Foreign Minister and an aggressive dove. Beilin was interested but noncommittal. Nevertheless, he extended what Pundak describes as a "very long leash" -- in effect, carte blanche to explore all possibilities and report back at every stage of the contacts. Ever since the Labor Party regained power last year, Israel had begun opening the process. In fact, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...
Rabin, who was also entertaining feelers from the Palestinians by way of Egypt, remained cautious about the talks. But by March, Rabin authorized Peres to keep close but still unofficial tabs on what was being called the "Oslo Channel." By then, the Knesset had repealed the law prohibiting Israelis from meeting with the P.L.O...
...very interesting stuff." Interesting enough to entice two Israeli Foreign Ministry officials, Uri Savir and Yoel Singer, to travel to Norway soon thereafter for a firsthand look and to join the negotiations. At this point, Arafat in Tunis and Rabin in Jerusalem had been fully persuaded that the channel was more fact than fantasy, and both leaders were closely monitoring the drafting of a declaration of principles in which every nuance was fought over...