1.   Adapting to life in American classrooms, however, has not always been easy for the program participants.

2.   But program participants had to guard their gardens at night to keep thieves from stealing their food.

3.   Current program participants are being notified of the changes by mail.

4.   During their two-year commitment, program participants have the option of working toward their permanent licenses.

5.   Dwight Hunt, a H.I.R.E. program participant, said it has given him hope for his future.

6.   For almost as long as it has existed, the television business has been trying to transform inactive couch potatoes into interactive program participants.

7.   Heil said one of the most important features of H.I.R.E. is that program participants are guaranteed room and board by the referring agencies.

8.   If the property owner fails to act, a task force assigns the job to a program participant and charges the property owner for the cleanup.

9.   Indeed, the American Jewish Congress is suing a Texas employment program that it alleges used federal money to buy Bibles that it then required program participants to study.

10.   Program participants must clean their stretches of road four times a year.