Word: virtually
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...primary challenger, Republican Jack E. Robinson III, lost the support of the state and national Republican organizations after a series of campaign mishaps and embarrassing personal revelations. Robinson ran the final months of the campaign with no staffers, no headquarters and few donations, making Kennedy's victory a virtual surety...
Workers love IM for the same reason that kids do: it lets them hold virtual meetings anytime and anyplace. No more playing telephone tag or pulling down an e-mail screen. Instead, IM users can spot who is online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would...
...family." Even a purple dinosaur, however, can tell this isn't quite true. April's mom Regla Sanchez, 26, is inmate No. 162850 at the Hernando Correctional Institution, 320 miles away in Brooksville, Fla., and April is looking at an image of her mother on a computer screen. This virtual family visit is part of a new pilot program, Reading Family Ties, run by the Florida Department of Corrections in an effort to help incarcerated mothers and their kids bond. But when her mom disappears from the screen, April's face crumples. "It's hard," says Isabel Strausser, the program...
...doesn't know how much longer she can hold out," says Barrett, 23, who has served three years on drug charges at Hernando Correctional in Florida. She rides the bus to Reading Family Ties in Miami once a month so Chevas, 6, and Chev'Qavia, 4, can have a virtual visit with their...
...Army, which just launched a $600 million online learning initiative. But I had more trouble with the vision of millions of doe-eyed eighteen year-olds dialing up for degrees without leaving their desks. Sure, digital diplomas are often cheaper than the traditional parchment ones, but I assumed that virtual students got precisely what they paid for - a fraction of the collegiate experience devoid of all the time-honored rituals like keg parties and all-nighters during finals...