International Data Corp. also predicts that the proportion of four-year colleges offering a distance learning program will grow from 62 percent to 84 percent by 2002.

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We are, for instance, committed to the Clinton Global Initiative and are working with UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and Microsoft to launch an innovative new distance-learning program that provides supplementary education for 150, 000 displaced children and members of their host communities.

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We are, for instance, committed to the Clinton Global Initiative and are working with UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) to launch an innovative new distance-learning program that provides supplementary education for 150, 000 displaced children and members of their host communities.

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If broadcast flag rules and technology were in place, it could keep a university from playing part of a news program for a distance-learning course taken over the Internet, or even impose restrictions on a teacher who records a documentary to show in class, she says.

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This bodes well for distance learning companies such as Class.com, a 1998 spin-off of a longtime University of Nebraska program called Independent Study High School.

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