Word: program
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Providence has rapidly emerged as the sentimental favorite in the field, since the school will cancel its baseball program after this season to comply with Title IX regulations...
This imminent signing marks another chapter in a highlight-heavy career, which began at basketball powerhouse DeMatha High School and continued in the rebuilding of a competitive program at Harvard...
...online questionnaires aimed at identifying and helping people cope with everything from depression to relationship problems. Nancy, executive producer of a daily cable-TV show in Los Angeles, takes the sessions during long coffee breaks to help her deal with job stress. UCLA's Jacobs and Christiansen studied this program and, surprisingly, found that it helped people nearly as much as sessions with live therapists. "It takes people systematically through problems and helps them organize their thinking," says Jacobs...
Scholarly studies of the effects of character ed are encouraging but inconclusive. Teachers and administrators, though, say their programs work. Their evidence is anecdotal but remarkably uniform. Steinberg of Gaithersburg Middle School says that since he instituted character ed four years ago, test scores are up and suspensions are down. The Round Rock, Texas, school district started character education last year after a survey of student attitudes showed some alarming results: 71% of students admitted to telling a lie in the previous month, for example. Round Rock's Jollyville Elementary School reports a 40% drop in disciplinary referrals since...
...planners correctly figured they would soon be ordered to come up with more targets. A mid-level Cia bureaucrat "nominated"--warspeak for picked--the Serbs' Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement, a hub of Serbian weapons buying and development. He even had its address. "But you can't program bombs by street addresses," a U.S. intelligence official says. "We had to give the Pentagon geo-coordinates." The first mistake occurred when the CIA took the right address and thumbtacked it to the wrong building on a Pentagon-drafted...