Word: program
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...These fellows are engaging, eclectic and very student-oriented," said Theresa Donovan, coordinator of the fellows program for the IOP. "Their real-life experiences in politics and their wonderful personalities should inspire students...
Senator John Glenn, 76, learned last week that he'd soon have other things to dread. As a rookie payload specialist in NASA's shuttle program, he'll spend the better part of the next nine months reacquainting himself with the punishing business of flying in space. He will practice lift-offs, run through landings, learn how to shimmy out of a shuttle threatening to blow up on its pad or bail out 10,000 ft. above the ocean--all at an age when most Americans have long since retired...
Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report...
...couldn't see, Michelle collapsed and died of dehydration. Six weeks later, at another wilderness camp a camper named Kristen Chase died of heatstroke after a forced march in 105 [degree] heat. In 1994, yet another camper, Aaron Bacon, died of acute peritonitis compounded by neglect on another wilderness program...
...humans, the first of which appears in an imaginative short called Geri's Game. Director Jan Pinkava used powerful new software tools to create the skin and facial expressions of an old codger battling his alter ego in a to-the-death chess match. Heightening the realism is a program that simulates the physics of cloth so that the creases and folds of Geri's jacket follow his every move. "This is about getting ordinary bits of the real world into machines," says Pinkava. In a most extraordinary...