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To: HerbVic who wrote (6467)	11/19/1997 1:31:00 AM
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Texas May Drop All Textbooks for Laptops. >The chairman, Dr. Jack Christie, says he first considered the idea a few years ago but was told then that the cost would be prohibitive. Now the board is looking at $1.8 billion in projected costs for textbooks over the next six years, and Christie argues that given technology improvements that have lowered the price of computers, it may be cheaper, to say nothing of innovative, to lease a laptop for each of the state's 3.7 million students.< sjmercury.com Can you say "e-Mate"?