Word: krista
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...spoke with representatives of organizations with very different viewpoints. First, Professor Fran Stott, the Vice President and Dean of Academic Programs at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in childhood development that was founded in 1966 to educate Head Start teachers. On the other side of the issue is Krista Kafer, an Education Policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., a non-profit research institute that has historically taken a very skeptical view of Head Start programs...
...booking travel online. Other obstacles include a continued reluctance to give credit-card information over the Internet (see box) and doubts about online agents' reliability. Then too there are the horror stories about travelers who booked online but got left high, dry and broke at the airport. Says Krista Pappas, director of the e-commerce travel division at Gomez, an Internet rating and research company: "As with anything where consumers are on a learning curve, there is some frustration. Is online booking perfect? No. But I think it will continue to grow and get better...
...Solo," on women who are choosing to stay single [SOCIETY, Aug. 28]. Call me selfish, but I enjoy traveling, buying nice things and going out wherever and whenever I want. When the time is right, I will settle down. But for now, it's great "livin' la vida loca"! KRISTA PALOMBA Watertown, Conn...