That money quickly paid dividends when Miller hired two academy graduates to maintain the school's computer network during the summer.

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To refine its ratings and reflect the importance of new emerging technologies, the Review made several changes to last year's survey, adding questions ranging from whether a school offers network access in dorm lounges to if it has a computer ethics policy in place.

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The Flint Journal reported this week that a Michigan school district recently had to block access to college basketball games over its computer network.

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Personal computing emerged in the 1980s as something Hollywood couldn't ignore, with films like "Tron, " about a hacker who gets trapped in a computer game, and 1983's "WarGames, " about a nerdy high school student who nearly causes a nuclear apocalypse after breaking into a military-operated computer network.

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