Word: gilligan
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While Sesame Street inspired a new approach to children's programming, other formats were faltering. Sitcoms like Gilligan's Island began to push out locally produced kids' shows, while animation studios like Hanna-Barbera offered their own distractions. In 1990 the Children's Television Act required that all stations air at least three hours of educational programming a week, prompting a brainteasing revolution. Preschool kids now learn problem-solving from Blue's Clues, teamwork from Wonder Pets! and Mandarin from Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Good thing they already know how to get to Sesame Street...
...only women need such support. For years, women lacked the full benefits of a Harvard education. They couldn’t attend classes with Harvard students until 1943. They couldn’t study regularly in Lamont until 1967. Add to this history the claims of feminists like Carol Gilligan, Harvard’s first gender studies professor to receive an endowed chair, that women are “silenced” in the “patriarchal structure” of our schools, and you have the College’s attitude: Boys got a head start; girls need...
...Sebelius boasts a unique political pedigree: She is one-half of the nation's first father-daughter gubernatorial combo. Her father, John Gilligan, served as Ohio's chief executive in the 1970s...
...implemented them, 29 of the last 55 accidents could have been prevented, says NTSB vice chairman Robert Sumwalt. "We want to pressure the FAA to make changes so that these crashes stop occurring," Sumwalt says."We take this as seriously as the NTSB," counters Peggy Gilligan, the FAA's top safety official...
...required? The FAA thinks not. For years the agency has worked collaboratively with the helicopter EMS industry, looking for ways to improve safety by passing voluntary guidelines and only occasionally resorting to the slow process of imposing new regulations. "We will continue to pursue a very aggressive voluntary campaign," Gilligan says. "Our goal is to identify what we can do quickly together to reduce risk...