Word: programming
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...doctor. Instead, her dreams were derailed when she was sentenced to prison at age 35 for selling drugs. Last night at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), Warren shared her story as part of a kickoff event for "Prisons in America," a conference sponsored by the Harvard Prisoner Education Program...
Precious Bedel and Warren, both former members of the program, told last night's audience that the chance to express themselves through writing gave them an outlet through which they were able to reform themselves...
...There's just a massive education program that's needed here." --Carey Sherman, Recording Industry Association of America senior executive V.P., on the CD copying enabled by some websites...
Lions does keep its earnest goal upfront, introducing kids to books through a fuzzy feline family that runs a library (this being civic-institution-loving PBS) and reads--and lives out--a different story every episode. But the real stars are the words that the program's Sesame Street-esque skits, songs and cartoons cleverly bring to life, teaching kids to read along and sound out words onscreen. A Motown group, Martha Reader and the Vowelles, sings new vowel sounds; Dr. Ruth Wordheimer (played by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) helps patients deal with "long-word freak-out"; and in "Gawain...
...problem: it seems Tafur, 36, is actually a lawyer who worked in a coca-eradication program in Colombia. He came to the U.S. for treatment after a plane crash and was studying environmental law when Colombian prosecutors asked that he be detained. On Dec. 3, 1998, police there seized seven tons of cocaine in Cartagena. Prosecutors claim $350,000 of Tafur's money was being used for the shipment. But Tafur has bank records that show the $350,000 in question was part of a widow's pension the Colombian Congress had awarded to his mother. Tafur's father...