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Describes the development and implementation of a pilot technology-driven intermediate Spanish course at Pennsylvania State University. Looks at the use of four technologies--synchronous chat, Web and multimedia training, computer-based grammar practice, and asynchronous (E-mail) conferencing--in this foreign language course. Summarizes some lessons learned from the distance learning project. (VWC)

The author examines geographic concentrations of poverty and its relationship to the distribution of minorities. Topics include neighborhood redistribution, census data, and metropolitan populations.

Using boundary-matched 1980 and 1990 census tract data for the central county of the Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area, the authors explore the effect that public housing has on changes in neighborhood poverty rates to evaluate the impact of governmental and institutional actions on recent increases in poverty concentration within urban areas. Three important findings emerge: Public housing concentrated poverty in Columbus during the 1980s, the effect of public housing on poverty concentration was greater among blacks than whites, and public housing concentrates poverty because host neighborhoods house the at-risk portion of the population and because public housing affects the surrounding housing market., Poor individuals are much more likely to live in a poor urban neighborhood today than they were two or three decades ago. Indeed, the increasing spatial concentration of urban poverty [...]

Discusses the origin of the Catalan expression `coci moci' found in the book `Dotze del Crestia' by Francesc Eiximenis. Story about `Lisander, princep de Friga,' found in chapter 49 of the book; Basis of the English word `hotch-potch', French `pot-pourri' and Castillian `olla podrida.'