Monday, July 02, 2007

Online classes keep soldier in touch.

This post comes from the Miami Herald. Juan Ramos hunkers down in Army barracks just outside Saddam Hussein's hometown, hoping insurgent fire doesn't interrupt his online biology class.

He chats via computer with a professor at Miami Dade College and tells fellow students in an online posting, ''Well, I am not your typical guy or your typical Latino'' before describing the gunshot in the head he survived and the inspiration he finds when he ''breathes'' Pachelbel's Canon. To read the rest of this article click here.



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