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	August 14, 2000

HIGH-SPEED NETWORKING Academic researchers worldwide will benefit from a new Internet gateway linking Latin American universities and research facilities to the high-speed research and education networks in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. (8/14/2000) NEW FOCUS FOR ACHIEVA An ambitious test-preparation company is shifting its focus toward Web-based services. (8/14/2000) CARNIVORE The Justice Department plans to select a university to test a new, controversial electronic-surveillance system. The university will verify that the system poses no undue threat to individual privacy. (8/11/2000) University of Washington ASSESSMENT, TREATMENT Virtual reality, still viewed by many as an expensive toy, is gaining new respect from psychologists, clinicians, and therapists who say their experiments with the technology have produced surprising results. Researchers at the University of Washington, for example, use a virtual environment called Snow World (right) to help burn victims cope with pain. (8/11/2000) VIRTUAL DORM Although first-year students at the University of Dayton won't step through the dormitory doorways for a couple of weeks yet, some of them have already been sitting up till the wee hours, chatting with their roommates via e-mail. (8/10/2000) STEPPING DOWN The new Colorado Institute of Technology is losing its top two leaders just five months after it was formed, and before its college classes have even begun. The institute, financed by private funds, links Colorado public, private, and commercial institutions in a major push by state officials to further information-technology education. (8/10/2000) A DIFFERENT VENUE Arabs, Israelis, Turks, Iranians, and Greeks are logging in to the Middle East's first virtual academic conference, called People Across Borders. (8/9/2000) CHARGES OF DECEPTION The National Association of College Stores and VarsityBooks.com, an online retailer, have settled a lawsuit in which the association accused the company of using misleading advertisements and deceiving customers. (8/8/2000) Torbjörn Zadig REVISITING THE 'DECRETUM' Using contemporary database technology and a digital version of an illuminated medieval text called the Decretum (detail, left), a scholar at Yale University has startled canon-law scholars with a new view of the roots of academe. (8/8/2000) Previous stories | This week's print edition | Contact us Search or browse hundreds of online scholarly and administrative resources.

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