The gap between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who don’ t could spell trouble not only for classroom learning today, but in turn for producing the kind of students who are ready to compete for the jobs of tomorrow. By the year 2000,60 percent of all jobs will require high-tech computer skills. Over the next seven years, according to Bureau of Labor statistics, computer and technology related jobs will grow by an astounding 70 percent. "We as a nation are missing the opportunity of a lifetime," insists Riley. "The ability of all students to learn at the highest levels with the greatest resources and have the promise of a future of real opportunity-this is the potential of technology."
Riley proposes dosing the gaps in technology access by providing discounted services for schools and libraries. The 1996 Telecommunications Act called for providing all K-12 public and nonprofit private schools, as well as libraries, wi
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Those who have a strong love for climbing high and difficult mountains are often looked upon with astonishment. Why are men and women (16) to suffer cold and hardship, and to (17) on high mountains This astonishment is caused, probably, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity (18) men give their leisure.
Mountaineering is a sport and not a game. There are no man-made rules, as there are for such games as golf and football. There are rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to (19) , but it is this freedom from man-made rules (20) makes mountaineering interesting to many people. Those who climb mountains are free to use their own methods.
If we compare mountaineering with other more (21) sports, we might think that one big difference is that mountaineering is not a "team game". We should not be (22) in this. There are, (23) , no "matches&qu
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