The World Wide Web enables us to do many things faster and easier--but has it really changed what we as human beings can accomplish in our lives? An intriguing collection of essays, "A One Thousand Dollar Web Challenge Short Papers on the Use of Technology in Education" explores the impact and uses of the Web, particularly in educational settings. In a section entitled, "The Impending McMorphosis of the Global Professor," author M. O. Thirunarayanan describes a future in which learners will visit "drive-through universities" for both educational enhancement and an order of French fries....

"Dr. Thiru's Golf Quiz" both asks and answers 100 fascinating questions about the game of golf. Questions encompass interesting golf trivia including the history of the game. Author Dr. M.O. Thirunarayanan, an avid golfer and university professor, provides an interesting and fun way to teach either the well-practiced or beginning golfer the little-known facts of the game of golf. Samples of included questions follow:

What is the penalty if a golf ball falls down accidentally from the tee before it is addressed? Of all the presidents until the end of the twentieth century, which president...

"We human beings have successfully developed machines that can read and write, but we have met only with very limited success in our attempts to develop machines that can think and learn. Our brains are better suited to learn and think than any machine that we have invented until this point in time.

" The inability of human beings to read or write should not sentence them to lives of poverty, unemployment, and continued illiteracy. "Thoughteracy for All" proposes an innovative way to improve the lives of the illiterate.

Author M. O. Thirunarayanan offers an intriguing solution to this...