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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/160/economy/In_remote_town_Internet_brings:.shtml In remote town, Internet brings higher education to a new class of Mexican Learners Lisa J. Adams, Associated Press SANTA ANA DE ALLENDE, Mexico (AP) With only one telephone for 1,400 people, it's not easy to call anyone in this hamlet high in Mexico's central mountains. But you could send an e-mail. In many ways, Santa Ana de Allende seems frozen in another era: Burros and horses amble onto the streets while an elderly woman hacks at roadside weeds with a machete. But a new technological river is running through the village bringing higher education to people who otherwise would have left the countryside to seek it in cities, if they could afford to. High on a hilltop, in a classroom of the town's only high school, 18 computers and a 64-kilobit-per-second satellite link offer farmers, housewives and students a lifeline to the rest of the planet. http://www.ruv.itesm.mx
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