Word: karens
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...Armed with a personal computer, a moderately fast modem, an Internet service provider and a Web browser, students can quickly gain access to all kinds of course material whenever they want. There are about 1,200 degree and certificate distance-learning programs available from about 900 accredited colleges, observes Karen Hansen, executive editor at Peterson's, a Princeton, N.J., education- and career- products publishing company that puts out the annual Peterson's Guide to Distance Learning Programs. Peterson's latest figures show that U.S. higher-education institutions offer distance-learning courses to more than 7 million students, according to spokeswoman...
Performance artist Karen Finley, who recently lost a Supreme Court case on a law requiring NEA grants to adhere to decency standards, has a new show, The Return of the Chocolate-Smeared Woman...
...Douglas Waller and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...plans accountable for their decisions. No, says the GOP -- the right to sue would simply divert money away from health care and into the pockets of wealthy trial lawyers. "The issue of litigation is the primary difference between the parties' competing health plan reform bills," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. "This being an election year, they're going to fight this one down to the wire...
...Filters are not the answer," agrees Karen Schneider, a librarian in upstate New York, who nevertheless wrote a book called A Practical Guide to Internet Filters. Schneider's book reviews most commercial filters and explains how to make some of them at least serviceable. For instance, she advises that if you must buy a filter, pick one like Cyberpatrol, which allows you to disable "keyword blocking"--a way of getting around the breasts problem that afflicted the grocer. That way, your filter will block access only to a preselected list of offensive sites, rather than banning all the sites containing...