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I HAD EXPECTED that joining the Peace Corps would involve many discoveries - about another culture, about volunteering, about teaching English in another country - and about myself. But I did not think that going to Ukraine would include learning some history about the earliest European settlers of Hampton Roads and the roots of democracy in Virginia. Those discoveries came while looking for information about Ukrainian immigration to the United States for an American Studies class at Kherson National Technical University, the site of my Peace Corps teaching assignment. Kherson, by the way, is a river port city of about 300,000 people in south-central Ukraine, not far from the Black Sea. Like Hampton Roads, Kherson has a long established maritime connection, including extensive industry ...
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Since 1998, the nuclear power industry has enjoyed a surprising and still little-publicized renaissance of plant re-licensings and even new plant proposals. It took about three years for the revival's hidden trap to spring: a potential workforce shortage. Once the industry realized the issue, it took action on multiple fronts. A number of nuclear utilities have helped set up new two-year technical school, college and university programs to create a pipeline of nuclear technicians and engineers. Although the missing educational pipeline is specific to the nuclear industry the dearth of technical and scientific college and university grads is a national problem. Nuclear power's retirement cliff is not unique, either, since corporate America is woefully aware that the experienced, workahol...
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Leading the way for the Jamaicans was former Vere Technical and national junior representative Kimberly Williams. Williams, who attends Florida State University, leapt to an impressive 13.72 metres to win the Open female triple jump.
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Continuing Education will soon take over operations of the local branch of Public Allies, a national non-profit headquartered here that provides leadership training for youths in 15 cities - part of a long-term strategy to decentralize the national organization and give it better financial stability. Under the agreement, the Milwaukee Public Allies office would get training, technical assistance and evaluation from the national organization. But the university would help with fund raising and would get the roughly $400,000 in federal AmeriCorps money that the national organization gets to run the local office.
