Today, just about everyone from pre-schoolers to grad students have easy access to computers. But apparently that's not handy enough for top education officials in Massachusetts. Today the state's Board of Higher Education approved a proposal that would require students attending state funded colleges and universities to purchase their own laptops. We speak to Michael Riccards, President of Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts and Bill Brolley, from the Computer Services Department at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire - where every student has been required to buy a computer since 1991. Independents Despite the death of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan in a plane crash last night, the final presidential debate of Election 2000 will take place tonight in St. Louis as planned.
Polls show the contest is still neck and neck.
To help us understand voters who reject party affiliation we speak to two New England politicians who have also walked independent paths, Maine Governor Angus King and Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders. Now, a new and exotic material also derived from graphite holds fantastic promise. The material is called nanotubes. Scientists have big hopes for it, but you have to think small, very, very small when you consider the revolutionary material. We speak to Thomas Rueckes, a graduate student at Harvard University and part of a research team working on nanotubes.