Word: tools
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Although the committee said that HOLLIS has been an adequate operating tool for the past decade, the newsletter says that "no system... lives forever...
HOLLIS operates on a system "that is a very cumbersome tool in a networked world," the report said...
Prison officials, however, don't follow the logic. Most correctional officers strongly oppose such a ban; Milwaukee prison officials are starting a petition drive against the supervisors' decision. "Weight lifting is a tool to help control the inmates," says Jeff Mayer, security manager at the House of Correction. Currently, inmates are allowed only 50 min. a day in the gym, which leaves plenty of time for more cerebral pursuits. Those who avoid prison violations for at least 30 days earn extra time to pump iron, while troublemakers are denied barbell privileges. Says Sergeant Andrew Lammers, the gym director: "If inmates...
...think that the Internet in its current levelof usability will not be highly effective in ateaching role as a teaching tool," says JamesClark, executive director of "ACCESS: Networkingin the Public Interest," a Cambridge-basednon-profit group...
...science teachers, who in one session accepted without protest the assertion that Egyptians were flying around in gliders thousands of years ago. And in Atlanta, Gladys Twyman, coordinator of the African-American infusion program for public schools, confirms that the concept of melanin is used both as a teaching tool and as part of the curriculum. That concept, she explains, "is the thread, the core of the project...