But now they can conduct all their correspondence, including receiving exams and returning completed papers, via e-mail. What was once known as the Home Study Program is one of the nation's oldest and largest distance-education programs, with 40 courses offered in supermarket, food distribution and convenience store operations. It is the only distance-learning program in the world for food store employees, with 18,000 students enrolled at any one time. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
War is hell.
Yet human beings have nearly always gone to war quickly and with great zeal. If Iroquois women could be equal partners with men, then so could white women, asserted suffragists in the mid-1800s looking to Native Americans for inspiration in seeking women's rights. The previous record for the first-half period was 45.1 degrees, set in 1921.