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Could distance learning ever replace traditional classroom education? You don't have to wait for the next century to answer this; you have to wait only until the fall. Western Governors University, a completely virtual college based in both Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, will be offering its first courses. Started by Governors from 18 Western states and encompassing the state universities in those areas, W.G.U. will initially offer continuing-education courses and associate degrees, says Jeff Edwards, marketing director for the school. There will be a con- centration on information technology courses, although at press time the catalog...
What's the best way for a woman to give birth? You'd think after millions of years of practice, we'd have the answer nailed by now. But as a study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine makes clear, there's still a lot about birthing babies that even obstetricians don't know. Take something as simple as walking during the early stages of labor, which was the focus of last week's report. Many women find that it helps them to relax, to work through their contractions before the often tough job ahead. In addition...
...Sounds great -? but can we believe it? In contrast with pronouncements from Washington, the answer is probably. "Intel?s a bellwether for the PC industry, as well as being on the front lines of the Asian crisis, so everyone listens very carefully," says Schwartz. "If there were bad news coming, they would be preparing investors for it. Otherwise, next time around, they?d get hammered." How often fear and honesty go hand in hand...
Henry Fool--what a guy! He materializes, like the answer to a dark prayer, in a Queens neighborhood where a sanitation worker named Simon Grim (the glumly funny James Urbaniak) is literally lying in the street waiting for...something. Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan, pinwheeling raffish charisma) has everything, and too much of it. He swaggers, smokes, guzzles beer, grabs life by the butt and gives it a fat smack. He makes abrupt love to Simon's morbid mother (Maria Porter) and bored sister (Parker Posey). He is, he tells Simon, an artist, the author of a huge, unpublished tome called...
What explains his sudden passion for health-care reform? The answer is John Edwards. A 45-year-old trial lawyer and self-financed political neophyte, Edwards made HMO bashing the centerpiece of his recent come-from-nowhere campaign to win the state's Democratic Senate primary. In a year when public contentment guarantees most incumbents an extra bit of job security--but when unhappiness over managed care is the issue to watch--Edwards' surge has turned Faircloth's re-election into a fifty-fifty proposition. Democrats are jubilant over a new internal poll that shows...