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...Amid an extraordinary collection of honorees at our annual TIME 100 gala that included social entrepreneurs and activists, First Lady Michelle Obama announced that as part of the new Serve America Act, the White House is creating the Social Innovation Fund to help nonprofits and individuals who are working on creative solutions to the nation's most difficult challenges. TIME supported the creation and passage of the Serve America Act, and Mrs. Obama's speech--she is, by the way, a TIME 100 honoree--was a fitting capstone to both the evening and the movement for national service. She cited...
...Amid all this new evidence, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has assembled a panel of experts to re-evaluate just how much vitamin D we really need and can safely tolerate. Current IOM recommendations, set in 1997, are 200 IUs a day from birth to age 50 and a bit more after that. The upper limit of safety, according to the institute, is 2,000 IUs daily--too much can lead to, among other things, nausea and kidney stones--yet some vitamin-D proponents are pushing for up to 4,000 IUs a day for adults...
...Kirchblum, for one, is now hunting for volunteer legal jobs overseas amid final exams, graduation and taking the bar exam. His biggest concern is money because he will only receive $20,000 from Milbank for being deferred, and he owes more than $100,000 in student loans. "Why I chose to take a firm job or even to go to law school in the first place was it seemed like the stable, responsible path," he says. "Now everything has been thrown...
...Married a British professor and lived abroad until 1988, when she returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother and became a leading advocate for democracy and human rights amid a brutal crackdown by the nation's junta...
Take sponsors. In theory, with several backers cutting ties with the sport - the recently nationalized Royal Bank of Scotland, for one, has other things on its mind - new ones could have negotiated more in the way of exposure than they might have three or four years ago. But amid squabbles over the future of Formula One, "at the moment it's not a good proposition," says Mick de Haas, a sports-sponsorship consultant with a history of involvement in Formula One deals. The sport, he says, is "destroying itself...