Word: vitalize
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Even America's evangelical community, usually at the nation's vital and visionary edge, has been uncharacteristically subdued as it ponders a retreat from the political activism of the 1980s...
...school on sprawling suburban acreage that's wired for online learning might seem more conducive to education than a century-old institution. But in a new report, the National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that older schools, if renovated and upgraded, can be just as vital. The trust is interested in the preservation of the buildings as historic landmarks, but its report also argues that the decline of small, neighborhood schools has impaired our sense of community and led to large, impersonal campuses far from home. That's why most kids today can't walk or bike to school...
Students will be even more convinced when they hear the story of Jacalyn R. Blume, the Lowell House librarian. "I do feel very strongly that the House collections need to go on HOLLIS to keep them vital and useful, and to keep interest in developing the collections," she wrote in an e-mail message. "I particularly realized this when in a single term, a few springs ago, there were over 700 students enrolled in classes about the Renaissance"--'The Renaissance in Florence' and 'Michelangelo'--"and I heard students complaining that all the books in Lamont and Fine Arts were...
INTERNET FOR DUMMIES INVENTOR: MYSMART.COM There are people who still don't know how to use the Internet. Online stock-trading firms everywhere feel it is vital to get these folks online. Mysmart.com's smart mouse-pad system is the See 'n Say of Internet browsing. Icons on the mouse pad point the way (mainly to e-commerce sites) for those who just can't deal with Netscape...
...SCHOOL A big new school on sprawling suburban acreage that's wired for online learning might seem more conducive to education than a century-old institution. But in a new report, the National Trust for Historic Preservation argues that older schools, if renovated and upgraded, can be just as vital. The trust is interested in the preservation of the buildings as historic landmarks, but its report also argues that the decline of small, neighborhood schools has impaired our sense of community and led to large, impersonal campuses far from home. That's why most kids today can't walk...