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Monster.com to Help Launch Virtual Job-Shadow Web Site.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2000 by Lewis, Diane E.
Feb. 3--Call it dot-com passion.
First, Microsoft's Bill Gates pledges $1 billion to educate 20,000 minority scholars.
Then, Jim Barksdale, former chief executive of Netscape Communications Corp. and a well-known venture capitalist, donates $100 million to the University of Mississippi to develop an institute to improve children's reading skills.
Now, five-year-old Monster.com, an international on-line career site, says it will spend $1 million to underwrite the launch of a virtual job-shadowing Web site to help high school students learn about careers. Through the program (www.jobshadow.org), students can communicate with chefs, computer programmers, scientists, and chief executives via the Internet.
Maynard-based Monster.com was...
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