Fewer black students use Internet

WASHINGTON White students in high school and college are far morelikely than blacks to have home computers and use the World Wide Web,even after accounting for differences in income, a study to bepublished today says.

"A significant segment of our society is in danger of beingdenied equal access to the Internet," says the study in Sciencemagazine.

The disparities in use by black and white students is "the mostdisturbing instance yet of when race matters in Internet access," thestudy said."We can't explain that by income," said Donna L. Hoffman, anassociate professor at Vanderbilt University, who helped write thestudy. "There must be some racial or cultural or …