51.  When the Internet was still a government-run system, there was only a single Internet backbone: the NSFNET, operated by the National Science Foundation, which connected the regional government-funded Internet networks that were run by various research universities.

52.  The group advocates a fair and public system under which all backbone providers would pay each other for carrying Net traffic.

53.  Still, with a clear payment system, those who can afford to pay the price can become peers.

54.  Many images from Mars Global Surveyor will be put on the Internet computer system.

55.  The plan may include a system for undocumented workers to earn permanent residency status-green cards-which would put them on the road to citizenship.

56.  "The system encourages incredible passivity, " Glanz said. "

57.  One aspect of American education too seldom challenged is the lecture system.

58.  The time is long overdue for us to abandon the lecture system and turn to methods that really work.

59.  The lecture system ultimately harms professors as well.

60.  * But the truth is that faculty members, and even students, conspire with them to keep the lecture system alive and well.