Lifelong Learning:

We board a downtown bank elevator and travel back in time to the fall of 1972. It is a little more than three years after the first moon landing by the Apollo 11 crew. As part of this and subsequent missions, moon rocks had been collected and brought back to Earth. During the ’70s, NASA

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$5-a-Day Anniversary – On this day in 1914, the Ford Motor Company doubled workers’ pay to $5 per day and reduced shifts to eight hours. Henry Ford’s groundbreaking move improved morale, productivity, and loyalty—and helped shape the modern workweek. Ford also introduced employee profit-sharing and offered benefits that encouraged stability and family life.

Current events highlight the key news, trends, and issues shaping our world today, from politics and economics to art, science and culture. Keep up-to-date, informed, and connected to the rapidly changing global landscape.

Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women. (2003 DVD 1hr 57 min)