Bill
Gates' roots in the trashcans of
history - It is interesting to
note the high moral tone being taken
by Microsoft in its castigation of
Oracle's legal if somewhat dodgy
intelligence gathering activities.*
But surely Microsoft hasn't forgotten
that Bill Gates himself, together with
Paul Allen, has also used trash cans
as a primary source of intelligence?
10%
of Students May Spend Too Much Time
Online, Study Suggests - At
least 10 percent of college students
use the Internet so much that it
interferes with their grades, their
health, and their social lives, and
the problem may run much deeper at
science and engineering institutions,
a psychologist at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute said here Friday
at the annual conference of the
American College Health Association...
Violent
Disagreement - Life in Britain
is more violent than in the United
States? That’s absurd, British
officials say, reacting to an American
television report that said Britain
was one of the most violent urban
societies in the Western world. The
CBS report said people in Britain were
more likely to be burgled, twice as
likely to be robbed and two and a half
times more likely to be assaulted than
in the United States...
A
GROWING PROBLEM - The suburbs
around San Francisco and San Jose are
the latest battlegrounds for the
ongoing conflict between developers
and those who seek to limit growth.
Spencer Michels reports...
Drawing
the lines on urban sprawl - From
PBS: Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting has
the story on drawing the lines on urban sprawl...
