Page 9 - Computer Labs News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Period when everybody leaves, when it's not sexy to be there at all, that's when we come in and focus on rebuilding schools, which are disaster-proof with computer labs, because they help children and at the same time family, community members and future generations. >> you were in the position to do that because of being a model. author, philanthropist, but people knew you first as being this beautiful woman. what does it mean to land on the cover? >> it was -- it was the most incredible sort of changing my life. it took -- it's like taking an elevator and going 20 stories high in a matter of...

Sex abuse at a military base in ft. mead. a horrible headline. what do you know? >> the fbi is investigating one alleged case of child sexual abuse at ft. meade on base. it involves one man and one child. we don't know the age right now but i can tell you the base has send out hundreds of letters to parents thinking that their children may have also come in contact with this man who worked at the youth center because they want to make sure that these parents talk to their children to see if potentially there are any other cases out there. erin? >> what more do you know about this person? i gue...

>> well, i got brave, because i've been brave all my life, because one lesson that my grandfather taught me before he passed away was, to never give up, and always be brave. don't let nobody push you around. and make sure you do -- make sure you do what you love. >> like now, like being an activist. standing up for what you believe in. tell me what's so special about your school, why you didn't want it to be closed? >> i didn't want it to be closed, because when i first heard that it was closing, and i started getting all the information about why it shouldn't close, and cps says they want eve...

what happened after that? >> sefrbl yecertainly years ago slight rise in psa from screening, and then i had more testing and had a slight rise in my psa, and the yourologist wand to do another biopacy, and i got extremely sick, even though i had antibiotics, i got a severe bacterial invection. my blood pressure went low, and i was hospitalized for four days in houston. >> you're okay now? that's all resolved? >> i'm fine. i had a heart rhythm problem afterwards as well, but now everything is fine. i don't have proskatate cancer. >> dr. miller, you hear a story like that, there are lo...

Know, the american system needs to be one which encouraging people to be curious, adventurous, taking risks, not the sort of system where everyone's hurtling towards a desk and they often cite you as an example. they say, well, look, bill gates dropped out of college, spent hours and hours in computer labs just dreaming up stuff. this was not working methodically toward a test. >> well, certainly if my example is meaningful, it's just one data point. being good at math and having that knowledge was critical to my being able to understand computers, to write code. yes, i memorized the tables an...