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To: SecularBull who wrote (5964)	10/5/2000 3:29:28 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

............................................ ............................... Sign on the dotted line Gambling Clinic Treats E-Chat Addicts COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish clinic specializing in the treatment of people suffering from pathological gambling and Internet addiction has begun helping mobile phone SMS (Short Message Services) chat addicts. One of the clinic's first such patients was a 25-year-old chauffeur who drove at night and spent several hours per day e-chatting, the daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten reported on Thursday. The man sent on average 217 SMS text snippets per day and his quarterly mobile phone bill quintupled to 12,000 crowns ($1,412), way beyond what he could afford. Michael Joersel, head of the clinic's Internet therapy center, told Jyllands-Posten he expected a growing number of mobile phone SMS chat addicts to seek help. Some 60 people have received treatment at the Internet therapy center since 1998. Denmark has 2.6 million registered mobile phone subscribers and 1.1 million Internet subscribers, according to national telecoms agency figures.

To: SecularBull who wrote (5964)	10/5/2000 3:55:10 PM
From: abstract	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

I'm sorry. If the American public is so informed and great, then why is Al Gore calling for Federal education reform? You're kidding, right? Assuming you're not, the obvious answer is that there is always room for improvement. The candidates of the two major parties have similar desires for improving education. That's nice. However, standardized testing is scary. You and I have a cordial if pointed disagreement going today. I think that is healthy. (I sure have learned a lot and have had notions I took for granted challenged by Freeus' point of view and appreciation the knowledge I have gained.) If both you and I had been in all the same classes taught towards the same standardized tests we would probably have more similar thinking than we do and both of us (and our country) would be compromised because of it. Seems to me that standardized testing seeks to create a standard (sounds rhetorical). The purpose of standardized tests is to make "them" like "us." We are a rich country because of our divergence, because we embrace those who are "foreign" in every meaning of the word. (Heck, look at some of those who post here:) Doesn't mean that I like all wheel-chair bound, right-brained, black, lesbian, republican dwarfs with a northern accent, but I bet they have a fascinating point of view that would cause me to reflect on my own ideas, and that I might actually learn something and be better off because of it. Thank you very much.