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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After Gore offered a road trip in his Prius, Bush said he could not afford the time off. "Anyway," he said, "it's about 102 degrees in Crawford now, which is weird, because it's normally quite mild this time of year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Hello, Mr. President. It's Al Gore Calling" | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

...post in 2003, he startled many experts by calling for access to drugs for three million HIV/AIDS sufferers by the end of 2005. It was a hugely ambitious goal?and focused global attention as never before on the injustice of people in poor countries dying because they could not afford lifesaving medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...lend your hand, / For the times they are a-changin'." That was prophesy - for a while politically, as the 60s generation marched on Washington, closed down their schools and for all time economically. Kids today may not want to change the world, but they sure can afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan at 65 | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Reason to Celebrate | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...parents agreeing on who gets their children until they do. It is sperm banks offering to give military couples a year's free storage, in case a chemical attack destroys a husband's fertility or an older wife wants to keep trying to have a baby and can't afford to wait a year while her husband is gone. It is a single mom watching her adorable baby girl bond with a caregiver on her post who always wanted a daughter: the baby sitter paints a room in her home pink and smiles when the baby calls her Mama, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An American Family Goes To War | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

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