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Subject: Etext #1492 & #1500, Project Gutenberg Newsletter, September, 1998
From: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@prairienet.org>
To: "Michael S. Hart" <hart@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:11:14 -0500 (CDT)
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Correction on filename from last Newsletter:
Aug 1998 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit #6[bsshkxxx.xxx]1430
And now 36 Etexts for September. This is the third!! month we have been two
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Mon Year Title and Author [filename.ext] ###
Sep 1998 Chance, by Joseph Conrad [Joseph Conrad #22][chancxxx.xxx]1476
Sep 1998 Gaudissart II, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #43][2gdsrxxx.xxx]1475
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac #42[1gdsrxxx.xxx]1474
Sep 1998 The Absentee, by Maria Edgeworth [Edgeworth #2][bsntexxx.xxx]1473
Sep 1998 In a German Pension, by Katherine Mansfield[KM #2][inagpxxx.xxx]1472
Sep 1998 New Poems, by Francis Thompson[Francis Thompson#2][npbftxxx.xxx]1471
Sep 1998 Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan, by Keene [tfmehxxx.xxx]1470
Sep 1998 Poems, by Francis Thompson [pmbftxxx.xxx]1469
Sep 1998 History of England, James II> Vol. 1, Macaulay[#2][1hoejxxx.xxx]1468
Sep 1998 Some Christmas Stories, by Charles Dickens[CD #50][cdscsxxx.xxx]1467
Sep 1998 Creatures That Once Were Men, by Maxim Gorky [#1a][crmenxxa.xxx]1466
Sep 1998 Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens [#49][wrkgmxxx.xxx]1465
Sep 1998 Contributions to: All The Year Round, Dickens #48[allyrxxx.xxx]1464
Sep 1998 The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, by Gissing [ppohrxxx.xxx]1463
Sep 1998 Some Roundabout Papers, by Thackeray[Thackeray #3][rndbtxxx.xxx]1462
Sep 1998 A Legend of Montrose, by Walter Scott [W Scott #5][mntrsxxx.xxx]1461
Sep 1998 The Black Dwarf, by Walter Scott [Walter Scott #4][bdwrfxxx.xxx]1460
Sep 1998 Prufrock and Other Observations, by T. S. Eliot #2[prfrkxxx.xxx]1459
Sep 1998 Dream Life and Real Life, by Olive Schreiner [#5][dlarlxxx.xxx]1458
Sep 1998 Mistress Wilding, by Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #1][wldngxxx.xxx]1457
Sep 1998 An Episode Under the Terror, by Balzac[Balzac #41][aeuttxxx.xxx]1456
Sep 1998 The Hated Son, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #40][htdsnxxx.xxx]1455
Sep 1998 Maitre Cornelius, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac #39][crnlsxxx.xxx]1454
Sep 1998 The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #38][lkhstxxx.xxx]1453
Sep 1998 Native Life in South Africa, by Sol Plaatje [nlisaxxx.xxx]1452
Sep 1998 The Art of Lawn Tennis, by William T. Tilden, 2D [tenisxxx.xxx]1451
Sep 1998 Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter[Eleanor Porter #4][plynaxxx.xxx]1450
Sep 1998 The Valley of the Moon, by Jack London[London #49][vlymnxxx.xxx]1449
Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [The Popular Kid's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448
Sep 1998 The Illustrious Prince, by E. Phillips Oppenheim 3[iprncxxx.xxx]1447
Sep 1998 Perfect Behavior, by Donald Ogden Stewart [satire][pbhvrxxx.xxx]1446
Sep 1998 Aeroplanes, by J. S. Zerbe [aerozxxx.xxx]1445
Sep 1998 The Voice of the City, by O Henry [O Henry #1][vcctyxxx.xxx]1444
Sep 1998 Two Poets, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac #37][2poetxxx.xxx]1443
Sep 1998 Kingdom of the Blind, by E. Phillips Oppenheim #2[kblndxxx.xxx]1442
Sep 1998 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner #4[aafrmxxx.xxx]1441
and some from October already:
We will be posting at least two Etexts on or by Columbus,
as the 12th October Etext and as Etext #1492. . . .
Oct 1998 Columbus! [ xxx.xxx]1492
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1491
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1490
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1489
Oct 1998 Columbus! [ xxx.xxx]1488
Oct 1998 [ xxx.xxx]1487
Oct 1998 The Unseen World and Other Essays, by John Fiske [nswoexxx.xxx]1486
Oct 1998 The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation [crntnxxx.xxx]1485
Oct 1998 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by Ibanez [4hrsmxxx.xxx]1484
Oct 1998 Forty Centuries of Ink, by David N. Carvalho [40cnkxxx.xxx]1483
Oct 1998 Modeste Mignon, by Honore de Balzac [de Balzac#45][mdmgnxxx.xxx]1482
Oct 1998 A Daughter of Eve, by Honore de Balzac [Balzac#44][doevexxx.xxx]1481
Oct 1998 Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes ][tbssdxxx.xxx]1480
Oct 1998 A Vanished Arcadia, by R. B. Cunninghame Graham ][vajipxxx.xxx]1479
Oct 1998 A Parody Outline of History, by D. O. Stewart [#2][apoohxxx.xxx]1478
Oct 1998 The Toys of Peace by H.H. Munro ("Saki") [Saki #3][toypcxxx.xxx]1477
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>From Edupage:
INFORMATION AGE HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
Asked about the impact of computers and the Internet on society, Vanderbilt
University management professor Donna Hoffman says: "Will we really
transform society through the use of computers and the Internet? Well, the
jury is still out. I certainly think the potential is there, but it will be
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If we're serious about change, we need to be thinking of getting entire
countries -- the developing countries and societies -- online. (Exec Sum 98)
MIT'S MANAGEMENT SCHOOL SAYS NO MORE PAPER APPLICATIONS
MIT's Sloan School of Management says it will no longer accept paper
applications, opting instead for a fully electronic application process.
School officials say the move will save thousands of dollars in processing,
printing and postage costs, plus hundreds of hours of staff time. The
school will, however, stick with snail-mail for the back end of the process
-- acceptance and rejection letters will be shipped via the U.S. Postal
Service. (Investor's Business Daily 4 Aug 98)
FCC TO HOLD HEARINGS ON DISPARITIES IN TECHNOLOGY ACCESS
The Federal Communications Commission will hold hearings this fall to try to
determine why minority groups are less likely to have telephone service or
own a computer than white families. A U.S. Commerce Department reports
indicates that 96% of white households have basic phone service, compared to
about 86% of black households and Hispanic households; similarly about 41%
of white families own a computer, compared to about 19% of black and
Hispanic families. FCC chairman Bill Kennard says, "Does this gap in access
to technology matter? You bet it does. How can you look for a job without
a phone? How can you demonstrate that you have the skills to compete if you
don't know which side of a diskette goes in first?" (AP 3 Aug 98)
[More on the same story, with a little better statistics: I counted as one]
STUDY SHOWS WIDENING GAP IN COMPUTER OWNERSHIP
A new study by the U.S. Commerce Department shows that PC ownership among
all Americans grew by 52% between 1994 and 1997, with a penetration of 36.6%
of U.S. households. But although penetration among blacks and Hispanics
grew faster than the overall rate, the disparity between them and white
households actually widened during that period. At the end of 1997, 40.8%
of non-Hispanic white households owned a PC, compared to 19.4% of Hispanic
and 19.3% of African-American households, a gap of 21.5%. In 1994, the
Commerce Department reported a gap of 16.8%. The study also found that
whites were much more likely to subscribe to an online service than either
blacks or Hispanics. "The study exposes a growing problem in our economy,
one that must be taken seriously: too many Americans are not able to take
part in the growing digital economy," says Commerce Secretary William Daley.
"The growing trend of information 'haves' and 'have-nots' is alarming."
(Miami Herald 31 Jul 98)
RIOTS FOLLOW BRAZIL'S SALE OF NATIONAL PHONE SYSTEM
Brazil's national phone company Telebras has been sold for almost $19
billion in the largest privatization deal in Latin American history -- a
deal dominated by Spain's Telefonica, Portugal's Telecom, and the U.S.
company MCI. Police used tear gas, batons, and a water cannon to control
thousands of angry demonstrators fearful that foreign owners of phone
services will ignore the needs of the Brazilian poor. (Washington Post 30
Jul 98)
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