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...example, minority college enrollment has remained steady under the new system, but has tailed off at top schools, such as UC Berkeley and UCLA, and in the most competitive graduate programs. This phenomenon is known as "cascading" - dropping large chunks of minority populations down from top-tier to medium- and lower-tier schools. But it also has its upside: Students don't require as many remedial courses to help them catch up with other students, and middle-tier colleges have upped their recruitment efforts in poor areas. They now woo a wider field of students from poor districts into...
...medium whose greatest promise is in its interactivity, though, the Net art pictured can be frustratingly inaccessible. To view all nine works on a home PC, you must install as many as four software "plug-ins." Even on the exhibition floor, where a system was all set up, a visitor struggled to navigate through one work's flashing sequence of pink and gray screens, giving up after only a few seconds. Clearly, for all its potential, Net art still has a few bugs to work...
...years and perhaps the most risky recent TV effort not involving a millionaire and a bride. As in war, there's been little time to prepare: camera blocking began only last week. On top of that, Frears and a cast of film stars have had to adapt to the medium, with the help of live-TV producers. But Richard Dreyfuss, who plays the American President, says the risk attracted him: "It's like an electrical charge...
...Many of the decisions--from shooting in black and white to having Walter Cronkite introduce the production--are like penance for the past. And no such apologies are necessary. Playhouse 90 was a wonderful program, but there's a difference between creating TV and broadcasting theater, between using the medium as a unique art form and using it as a mere tool...
...story's adult tone has fueled speculation that it's not just for kids. Henrietta spouts lines like "Sir, you see before you one who, like our Sainted Lincoln, burns to serve through the medium...