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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64806-2002Aug26.html Tech's Major Decline: College Students Turning Away From Bits and Bytes Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post Staff Writer If John Yandziak had been entering college a few years ago, he might have sought a stake in the "new" economy. He might have dreamed of becoming an ace code-cracker for the CIA or the National Security Agency, or imagined toppling an empire with revolutionary software. Maybe he would have tried to use the Internet to end world hunger. But as Yandziak attends his first college classes this week, he's harboring different academic ambitions. The Ashburn native says he wants to do something more social and more interesting than working with computers. ...
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