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Paul Durrant is a man of many careers. He was working as a hairdresser in the northeast of England in the late '70s when he heard a lecture by a photojournalist who had covered the Vietnam War. With a camera and a plane ticket, Paul set out to, as he says, "find his own war." He made it as far as Istanbul in 1981, when the military tensions in the Gulf got in the way of his eastward progress. On a tip from a fellow backpacker, he headed to Israel to find work at a kibbutz. He stayed for most...
...billion of Bush's $1 trillion comes from the Medicare trust fund and should be off limits. Extra tax-cut costs, like making the plan retroactive, could hike its price past $2 trillion. Bush is vague on the cost of his big-ticket priorities. He has allotted $600 billion for private Social Security investment accounts, but Dems say the price could reach higher. And Pentagon officials suggest that Bush's plans to upgrade and modernize the military could cost roughly $600 billion. Missile defense? Another $50 billion to-$100 billion more. Yikes! You do the math. Did Dubya...
...Works. ETS president Kurt Landgraf, former CEO of DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf. "It's the biggest initiative we have." His golden ticket may be ETS's new "e-rater," a nifty tool that can grade essay questions in under a second, using advanced artificial-intelligence technology. ETS claims the scores the e-rater spits out match those given by human graders 97% of the time. That's as accurate as a second human reader...
Since then, thousands of other camps have begun to follow Ebner's lead. "In the past couple of summers e-mail has become a hot ticket," says Jeff Solomon, executive director of the National Camp Association, who estimates that as many as 75% of the nation's 6,000 residential summer camps offer e-mail access of some kind, up from just a handful a few years ago. "Camps have always wanted to respond to parents' concern that there be good communication. Mail is a little too slow for parents and phone a little too immediate for camps...
...Would that be so horrible? Maybe. Studies indicate that ticket prices are indeed higher in noncompetitive markets, and with three airlines dominating the skies, the smaller, low-fare regional carriers (such as Southwest) that have kept prices as low as they are (which isn't very low now) could quickly be stomped out of existence...