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...make more money. Then an addict tried to trade her his daughter for a bag of cocaine, and Collins was shocked into going straight. She enrolled in a yearlong Job Corps program in Edinburgh, Ind., in which she learned to operate heavy equipment. Last week she started an apprenticeship that pays $15 an hour. "Job Corps saved my life," she says...
...Harvard, Hays was a fine arts concentrator and worked for the Harvard Drama Club and the Hasty Pudding Theater. As a sophomore he began what became a three-year apprenticeship at the Brattle Theatre, in the days when it still showed plays and musicals. Under the guidance of the company’s head designer, Hays worked on about 50 productions...
...order to walk in GRADUATION ceremonies at 14 Los Angeles-area high schools this June, seniors must provide school officials with proof they will ATTEND COLLEGE or trade school, enroll in the military or take on an apprenticeship or other training. Administrators say the aim is to show students their post-high school options. Some students have objected to the PRESSURE, and civil libertarians are considering a suit. But the policy seems to be working: 95% of the seniors have committed to postsecondary plans so far, up from 54% last year...
...apprenticeship program was launched under the direction of Gérard Houllier - a former French national coach who currently manages a resuscitated and rejuvenated Liverpool club. The program is built on seven regional training centers, where young players scouted and recruited from small youth clubs and FFF-organized tournaments follow normal educational programs supplemented with daily training in football technique. The best players from regional centers are periodically called to the INF camp near Paris for higher-level instruction with national team coaches. On the weekends, the players return to their local clubs for their league games. "This system doesn...
...Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar - if indeed one can noodle on a sitar - and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time on Wednesday. "George was a brave and beautiful soul, full of love, childlike humor...