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...Even in courses that don't deal with personal issues, the Internet can be more welcoming than a traditional classroom, says Mary Furlong, the founder and chairman of ThirdAge Media, an Internet company for an audience of people in their 40s and 50s. "At a certain point you're not sure you belong sitting at a desk in a junior college with a bunch of 22-year-olds," she says. "Online, if you have gray hair, no one notices. Size doesn't matter. Humor matters. Intelligence matters." ThirdAge offers free courses on subjects like learning to invest, finding love online...
There are more specific challenges to Mosaic's pedigree. The U.S. Marshals Service and the L.A. police department may swear by the earlier versions of Mosaic, but many psychologists insist it has not been through a proper scholarly review. Mike Furlong, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, recently test-drove the Mosaic-2000 program and concluded, "This is just a private firm asking America's schools to create an open experiment." De Becker says his method is scheduled to undergo two academic evaluations...
...field is well defined and doesn't require a lot of knowledge or experience, one can peak early. Those who start a career late have the same shape of career as early bloomers." But they often approach the second half of their lives with added intensity. Says Mary Furlong, founder of ThirdAge Media: "Fifty rolls onto the odometer, and they say, 'Wow! How do I want to spend my time and money?' They worry less about things and more about making a difference...
...chooses words, the color of the paint and the way the text should be painted on the wall, and has the gallery do the work. Ronald Kuivila's Visitations is an audiotape of interviews, songs and the noises of a former factory. Robert Rauschenberg's 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece is a work in progress that currently has 195 parts--some visual, some aural--and measures nearly 1,000 ft. in length. Let's leave aside discussion of the value of these examples of contemporary art. Before people can judge them, they have to be seen...
...Runners are an audience that are very computer literate to begin with," Furlong says, "The fact that after the race they can dial up and check their splits, to see where they slowed down, what areas [of the course] they needed to work on--they were thrilled with that...