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Judging by these efforts, says Alan Kay, a techie visionary whose design work led to the Macintosh's easy-to-use screen display, "the computer revolution hasn't happened yet." Kay maintains that the computer is not a tool or an instrument but a medium, and he cites communications guru Marshall McLuhen's dictum that all new forms of media take their initial content from what preceded them. "Everything that we do on a computer is a simulation," says Kay. "Right now, we're still simulating paper...
...Despite Kay's enthusiasm for future electronic breakthroughs, the fact is that good teachers will always be the heart and soul of good education. Some social scientists worry about something they call technological inequity, a condition in which youngsters at richer schools get all the advanced computer gadgetry and kids at poorer institutions go without. Others are less concerned about the distribution of hardware than about the distribution of good instruction. Tom Snyder, creator of a series of popular educational games, is worried that "in the year 2000 poor, black inner-city kids are going to be taught by computers...
...Gerald Ratner so successful? In just six years the Englishman has parlayed a two-karat family business into the world's largest jewelry retailer, with 1,000 stores in the U.S. (under the names Kay and Sterling) and an equal number in Britain. In a speech last week at London's Albert Hall before the annual convention of the prestigious Institute of Directors, Ratner, 41, offered a four-point program for becoming a multimillionaire...
...discrimination. In recent days, press accounts have implied a lack of loyalty and patriotic zeal in the wake of war. Arab Americans respond that opinions may be divided -- as they are throughout the American public -- but loyalties are not. "Where else is my loyalty going to be?" asks Kay al-Askari, the northern New Jersey representative of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "We've been here 35 years." Brenda Murad, a second-generation Lebanese American, agrees. "I am not dealing with the conflict as an Arab American," she says. "I just see it as very wrong. When we went...
...meandering but finally quite affecting climax to the saga. It is 1979, and Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the sleek, ruthless don, has become a legitimate billionaire. His sister Connie (Talia Shire) has dredged herself out of a sullen stupor to become his feisty adviser. His ex-wife Kay (Diane Keaton) has remarried. His son Anthony (Franc D'Ambrosio) has eyes to become an opera singer. His daughter Mary (Sofia Coppola) is itching to grow up and fall in love...