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	Village school improves w/ help from Microsoft

saan-kpa

9-29-2008 8:39 PM

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saan-kpa says:

Well, MS can't be all bad, can it?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/920dc91d-f558-4125-a10f-0b0d561fe6eb/C7A505F6-2740-4A9C-BA1D-063E35615BF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080927-163231/Village-school-goes-high-tech" href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080927-163231/Village-school-goes-high-tech" style="font-size: 11px;">newsinfo.inquirer.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080927-163231/Village-school-goes-high-tech">The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080927-163231/Village-school-goes-high-tech">What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080927-163231/Village-school-goes-high-tech">He gave us fund for school supplies, school uniforms and for the contributions so that the parents won’t be spending anymore</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20080927-163231/Village-school-goes-high-tech">Dunleavy provided 160 scholarship grants, but this has now increased to 200. 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