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...commitment to technology," he says. "If you've got an old picture-and-text tour, the student may be turned off." Also, Web tours can offer more details than the glossy print brochures schools send out. Jeff Fieldson, whose daughter Emily applied to schools far from their Nashville, Tenn., home, said the Web was particularly helpful for learning about campus organizations. "The catalog just gives you a list of student groups," he says, "but the Web tours link to the groups' own home pages...
According to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn, the GOP will try to reopen the issue after addressing other matters of business...
...talk to the early-dinner crowd at the Ocean Breeze Restaurant in famously bellwether Macomb County, Mich. Owner Tom Moragianis voted for President Bush but now is concerned that a prolonged engagement in Iraq could be a mortal blow to an already ailing economy. Or in Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant and the hydroelectric dam in the middle of town are being left vulnerable. "The terrorists are still here," says World War II veteran Thomas Murphy. "I really do worry about our troops' being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security." Or at V.F.W...
DIED. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, outlaw country singer known equally for his blaring, bad-ass anthems of love and revenge and the real-life troubles behind his surly image; in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison...
...DIED. KEMMONS WILSON, 90, founder of the Holiday Inn chain whom TIME once called "the Man with 300,000 Beds"; in Memphis, Tenn. Irate at shoddy accommodations during a family vacation, Wilson built the first Holiday Inn in Memphis in 1952 with the goal of offering customers something novel: comfortable, child-friendly, inexpensive lodging. Fueled by a growth in American families traveling the new interstate highway system, the chain expanded from 100 in 1959 to 1,700 in 1975. There are now some 3,000 motels worldwide bearing the Holiday Inn name...