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...probably not like those of your childhood. To help you find out if you suit the new classrooms, particularly those in inner cities, Martin Haberman, distinguished professor in the school of education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, has developed an interview process that 50 school districts use to select effective teachers. You can take a written version of the test at home...
Though the QE2 definitely caters to an older clientele, she began to draw a younger crowd after the film Titanic romanticized the gilded lifestyle of the older liners. The gymnasium is getting more use, as are a nursery and a video-game room, and the ship has installed new direct-satellite phone and e-mail facilities...
...there's no question Americans are eagerly cutting the cord. Cell-phone use in the U.S. started slow. As recently as 1990 there were only 5 million wireless subscribers. Now 90 million Americans have cell phones, and by 2003 the number is likely to approach 140 million. Virtually all phones being made today have microbrowser capability, enabling them to surf the Web. PDA sales are exploding; they're projected to rise from 8.9 million last year to 35 million in 2003. That's largely due to a flurry of new devices from Casio, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, as well...
...wireless relies on the Internet. For close communications, many handhelds, including budget models for kids, have infrared sensors that let one unit interface with another nearby. Executives can use it to beam their business cards from their device to someone else's. And it's the technology behind that romantic Palm commercial in which two beautiful strangers, spying each other from different trains as one pulls away, manage to communicate: she sends him her phone number before they're whisked apart. (Yes, you can really do it if both Palms are on and you're close enough together...
...customized specially for you. "It's about connectivity to our own information, whatever is important to us," says Andrew Seybold, editor of Andrew Seybold's Outlook, a wireless data and mobile computing industry newsletter. You get your e-mail, your instant messages, your stock portfolio. You can use a travel application to find out if your plane is on time and what gate it's leaving from...