Show nr Lrrtr:aravnHiK &£& Cfjfvri-- iivTV'i ' V£ljW:V ijKY'jit'Cf Job Shadow Day can be tough to connect the school IIday to the larger work world hut that’s what the sixth annual Job Shadow Day Junior plans to do on Jan 3 Created b several and Achievement partners the 1 event invites more than a million stu-- 1 dents to "shadow" a mentor at work They will get tips from pe-p- le in Fortune 500 companies nonprof-i- t organizations offices and n radio and TV nt sta-An- Curry: She may bo shadowd tions lNBC’s Ann Curry was a mentor last year and may be one again i There also is a sdnxil curriculum to help students make the most of the experience Visit wwnjobshudtwont for details UNSAFE CARGO It's not airports but shipping that pose the greatest in our war with terrorism Up to 12 million cargo containers arrive in America each year and the U5 Customs Service screens only 2 to 3 Last spring Sen Bob Graham (D Fla) confirmed that 25 Islamic extremists may have come here inside cargo containers then just walked off the ships Nuclear and bioterror devices also could come by ship How can we stop this? One idea is Operation Safe Commerce a partnership between private companies and the government As part of a test plan Osram Sylvania installed monitoring devices a global positioning system and a detection device on its containers before they left Slovakia for the U5 The technology prevents tampering during shipping It was a success and may be a way to monitor all cargo coming to America PARADE MAGAZME JANUARY 19 9003 PACE 7 |