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...always come home to," she says. "In a foster home, once you're 18, you're out." Recalls Dale, a sculptor: "She said she wanted a family that would always be there for her and for somebody to walk her down the aisle when she got married. Her approach was very sincere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Foster Teens Find a Home | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...superannuation measures are sensible and overdue. It's the sort of house-keeping that was pro forma in the Hawke-Keating years; there was a lot to do, and the Labor leaders did most of it. Howard-Costello gradualism, however, is chamber music compared with their predecessors' hip-hop approach: mixing it up, three turntables on the go, to a Labor beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Like Howard (But Can Do PowerPoint) | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...That's not how it works now. In the cities of Australia, a typical scenario sees a group of teenage boys approach a group of girls at the beach. After some desultory conversation, the boys suggest an exchange of mobile-phone numbers. It's rare for a girl to say no, even if she doesn't like a guy. Better to give a fake number than make a scene. "I just kind of give it to anybody. I don't really think about it," says 15-year-old Kathleen. The boy's first text message might arrive the same night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fingers Do the Flirting | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...Global Water Research Coalition project, due to be completed mid-next year, will make testing unnecessary. Rather than having to carry out hundreds of costly and time-consuming tests for contaminants and speculating on their possible effects, scientists using the "toolbox" will be able to take a much simpler approach, detecting biological effects on, say, fish or water insects and working backward to identify the causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not a Drop to Drink? | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...witnessed that same dogged approach to public health many years before, when he and I worked together in the early 1990s on eliminating polio in the Western Pacific?a daunting task made harder by a lack of funds and by long days without sleep...

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

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