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.
The origins of the idea for a Peace Corps are numerous and go back long before the Kennedy era. Religious organizations had sent missionaries to remote areas of the world for centuries, not only to preach but to teach trades and build schools.