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...nature's alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning...
...Maryland's university system, educators credit K-16 outreach for a drop in remediation rates and a rise in SAT scores and minority enrollment. In a pilot program in Oregon, high school and state-college educators are redesigning college-entrance requirements so that admission will hinge on a portfolio of student work graded on a uniform scale. In the California State University system, 54% of freshmen had to take remedial math courses in 1998; the following year only...
...pound teenager, with pimples, big ears and a face he thought of as so bland it amounted to invisibility, he had few friends at school. In practically every thing he did at St. Paul Central High, he felt underestimated by teachers, coaches and peers. No one ever gave him credit for his drawing, or for playing a superior game of golf. "It took me a long time to become a human being," he once said. "I never regarded myself as being much and I never regarded myself as being good-looking and I never had a date in high school...
...irony of slowdowns is that they're caused, or at least deepened, by people doing smart things--tearing up credit cards, limiting purchases to stuff they really need. But when practiced in bulk, such level-headed frugality can shut down the economy. Friends, that's a risk you'll just have to accept. Let others prop up the economy if they can; you take steps to survive. Here...
...CREDIT CARDS/DEBTS Get rid of them. That's standard advice, and it's not easy to follow. But you don't want to enter a period of weak pay increases and diminished job security with hard-to-afford debt. Pay down high-rate debt first, and because rates should decline, pay fixed-rate debt ahead of floating-rate debt. Cash is king. You will get a better deal on things like cars and major appliances as manufacturers lure back customers. Keep cash equal to at least three months' expenses if you can. That's less important when you're debt...