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...appearance of the instant countryside clearly and immediately reconnected them with a submerged world of sympathy long forgotten or ignored. This depth of feeling runs counter to the civilized, industrialized impulses of what Wordsworth called "getting and spending," and the tension between the two impulses characterizes most lives. On the first Earth Day of the new century (April 22), this is where we are--running hard to catch up with our heady commercial present and our future in cyberspace and at the same time capable of being called back, at the drop of a wheatfield, to a life that connects...
...thus far are scant. But several high-profile distance ventures have flopped, and research has shown that chat-room courses tend to be more costly and have higher attrition rates than lecture-hall classes. And there's the prickly legal issue of ownership: who retains the rights to a Wordsworth lecture once it is let loose in cyberspace...
...intern with programming skills, who will develop Windows NT-based analytic applications and databases for a busy trading group. They prefer math and science concentrators who understand financial computing--prior knowledge of Excel, VBA and SQL is required. (If you don't know what these stand for, stick with Wordsworth...
Unfortunately, even these inchoate stirrings of competitive spirit will fade with maturity. As William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good...
...Books has a special referral program with Wordsworth Books and is working on a similar arrangement with the Harvard Bookstore, according to Gusmorino...