Word: projects
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Despite his early and substantial lead, Carter was anything but overconfident. For his part, the President remained convinced that he could win an election that depended so heavily on the sense of character and strength each candidate can project. Thus the three televised Ford-Carter debates could swing the outcome either way, not so much by what Ford and Carter actually say about the issues but by the general impression of their potential for leadership that they are able to convey to a nationwide audience...
...prison classes are a spin-off from a community legal-assistance project pioneered by Newman in 1972. It now provides such services as round-the-clock legal-aid units and high school instruction in legal basics. Street law, which begins its fifth semester next week, offers five subjects-including criminal and corrections law-at six prisons, youth detention centers and halfway houses. Impressed by the Georgetown program, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration has provided $320,000 in federal grants for similar courses by other universities. Beginning this month, street-law programs will be offered in two California prisons, seven...
...footage of the sun and stars, flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle of the Law of Moses, but his project will be well into the 1990s before he faces the challenge of dramatizing the doctrinal letters of the Apostle Paul...
Each film comes with two filmstrips keyed to records or cassette recordings, and a magazine called Bible Times. To develop these teaching materials, the Genesis Project has assembled 120 Bible scholars and historians at various seminars. Thus viewers will see Abraham on his way from Ur to the Promised Land, then watch a filmstrip as scholars explain that Ur was probably the earliest civilization and the place where writing was invented...
...Media Bible costs $2,000 for the ten segments to be released this year ($2,500 after Nov. 1). The producers are encouraged that in just a few months of preliminary marketing, 426 churches, hospitals, libraries and other institutions have signed up. If the project survives, it could turn around the sagging enrollments suffered over the last decade by many of the nation's Sunday schools and synagogue classes. Because of TV, observes Virginia Saari, the director of education for the First United Methodist Church in Lakeland, Fla., "children are visually minded now. We have to appeal to them...