Word: supportive
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Many schools have found a virtual solution to the perennial headache of fund raising. Instead of selling candy, washing cars or auctioning chances to tape your principal to the wall, you can now buy products online to support your school. Internet malls, such as Schoolpop.com and ShopforSchool.com promise participating schools cash rebates of as much as 20% of the total purchase and offer links to online shops like J. Crew, Amazon and Tower Records...
...storied Edwards dribbling in obscurity in Atlanta instead of getting ready for Sydney with her sister Olympians? Short answer: the money woes and uneven support that still beset women's basketball. As a co-founder and star of the American Basketball League, Edwards found herself out of work last year when the league was buried by the rival WNBA--which is backed by the NBA The WNBA clearly coveted Edwards' star power, but it refused to pay her more than the $65,000-a-season rookie rate--about half Edwards' ABL pay and far less than...
...demonstrated a competitive edge. "Under the old system," agrees Nathan Schauer, a coach at Los Angeles' Lincoln High, "a few schools were always wiping the floor with the rest of us." Alvino adds that the $1.3 million proceeds from sales of study guides last year are needed to help support the nonprofit program's $1.75 million operating budget. In response to its critics, the decathlon association promises to cut prices for study guides and eliminate them for three decathlon categories. Alvino also vows to eliminate trivial questions and errors in the study materials, such as a reference to NASA...
...center of a simmering spy-vs.-nerd war since the early 1990s. The anti-encryption forces, which control the technology through laws originally passed to regulate munitions, are led by a handful of spooky U.S. government agencies (such as the FBI and the National Security Agency) with support from the White House that rises and falls from one election cycle to the next--more on that faction later...
...next killer application--like the World Wide Web was in the early 1990s or gadgets to link the home to the Net may someday become--you first have to negotiate with every cable interest or with every AOL, then fewer innovations will be made. The Internet will calcify to support present-day uses--which is great for the monopolies of today but terrible for the future that the Internet could...