Four months ago, we published a buyers guide for small, lightweight laptops titled, 'How to buy a mini-laptop.'. Mini-laptops are now generally called netbooks -- a name coined by Intel -- but the devices remain popular for their small size, half to two-thirds the size of a normal laptop and far lighter.
By this time, because of Kennedyâs Executive order and Shriver's leadership, Peace Corps volunteers were already in the field. For more information, visit the National Archivesâ Digital Classroom Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Founding Documents of the Peace Corps and the Peace Corps web site.
In July 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Carrie Hessler-Radelet as the 19th director of the Peace Corps. Since 2010, Hessler-Radelet had served as Peace Corps Deputy Director and Acting Director. From 1981â83, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Western Samoa with her husband, Steve.