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| April 23, 2001 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mary C. Curtis

Terry Townsend has been a lawyer and a preschool teacher. And now, if everything goes as planned, she will leave her Charlotte, N.C., home, move to another country for two years, learn a new language and hone skills she can share.

At 50, she says it's obvious she's not a college student. But eager to "do the things I always meant to do but never got around to doing," she applied for a new life.

This is the Peace Corps?

The image of the Peace Corps is stuck in time, in the early 1960s, in fact, when President John F. Kennedy challenged college students to serve their country by living and working in developing…

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