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Setting volume limits is a good idea, but it won't block outside sounds. In-ear monitors (IEM) are better at isolating noise than earbuds are because they are inserted into the ear canal. Several mass-market brands, which range in price from $39 to $399, use gummy-bear-like coverings that can be squished into place. But the sound quality still isn't perfect, in part because, like earbuds, IEMs are too small to house complex audio circuits. (See the 50 best inventions...
...Harvard Education School summer program which trains some of the nation's elite educational administrators held its 20th reunion last weekend. In line with Harvard's usual flare for pomp and circumstance, the Institute for Educational Management (IEM) invited some very prominent speakers...
Williams, who spoke in Cavazos' stead, gave a presentation so out of sync with the mood of the weekend, so outrageous in its mediocrity and so appalling in its assumptions that six hours later, even after Governor Kean's sound, if unsurprising, speech, members of IEM were still complaining about Williams...
When Cavazos was sent by President Bush on a trip to Bolivia last weekend, the IEM was promised that Williams would read a copy of Cavazos' speech. But, as one IEM member said, "I hope that wasn't Cavazos' original speech...
...Like the IEM, the Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education (MLE) has changed since it was created in 1978 to encourage creation of continuing education programs. Because most colleges have now committed to such programs, Baden says, the focus of MLE is on teaching new administrators skills for continuing education and addressing concerns of directors of these programs...