Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...program was initiated by Stride Rite Chairman Arnold Hiatt, who pioneered on-site child care in the early 1970s. The center attracts half its participants from families who live near the company's corporate headquarters; the others are related to employees who contribute on a sliding, income-based scale to the annual $7,000 cost. Hiatt recruited faculty members from Boston's Wheelock College to develop a curriculum of shared activities such as storytelling and puppet plays...
Efforts to connect generations are producing a host of new programs across the U.S. Linking Lifetimes, a mentor program that brings retirees together with at-risk teenagers, is being launched in nine cities. In Omaha and seven other cities, elderly volunteers visit regularly with chronically ill children in a program called Family Friends. Generations Together, a research group based at the University of Pittsburgh, organizes phone links between older people and so-called latchkey kids, who return to empty homes after school. At the Point Park College Children's School in Pittsburgh, some preschoolers are being taught about aging...
Without such personal contacts, experts say, stereotypical images emerge. A child can become afraid of older people because he thinks they are going to die. But by spending time with the elderly, kids learn to accept the frailty of the aging while discovering their strengths. In one Pennsylvania program toddlers from a local day-care center spend time with Alzheimer's patients after being read such books as Grandpa Doesn't Know It's Me. Youngsters also learn that death is a natural component of life. Generations Together, for example, is developing a curriculum dealing with separation and loss...
...capable of carrying a warhead 1,500 miles, well within range of Baghdad. Since last July, Israel and the U.S. have been working on a ground-based missile that can fly nearly two miles a second, the speed required to intercept a tactical ballistic missile at high altitude. The program, called ARROW, is 80% funded by Washington. Israel hopes to launch the first test missile this summer...
...Rodney Sumter, 39, who was charged with first-degree manslaughter for beating to death a homeless man on a subway platform after the stranger spat on him and punched him in the head. Sumter who was traveling with his three-year-old son and had lately worked in a program to train homeless people in construction, had all the credentials of an earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary of the deranged homeless who make the subterranean world so menacing, have...