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...happen to look good on a resume. AmeriCorps has seen a 75% increase in college graduates who want to participate in its yearlong community-service program. Applications are up 18% at the Peace Corps and have tripled at Teach for America. Some 14% of graduates from Spelman College in Atlanta applied for the teaching program, as did 7% from Yale. Jason Merker, 22, a business major who graduated with highest honors from Emory University, stopped interviewing for finance jobs after he saw Teach for America's brochure in November. "I didn't love all the job opportunities that were available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young & Jobless | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...also be that an entirely different part of the brain holds the key to understanding anxiety. Michael Davis, a behavioral neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, has spent six years studying a pea-size knot of neurons located near the amygdala with an impossible name: the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, or BNST. Rats whose BNST has been injected with stress hormones are much jumpier than those that have got a shot in their amygdala. Could the BNST be at the root of all anxiety disorders? The clues are intriguing, but as scientists are so fond of saying, more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Science Of Anxiety | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...will create crowds of people in terminals who could be targets for attacks; the machines would be installed near terminal entrances and thus create huge congestion there. The devices would quickly become outdated, the letter adds, yet require big construction costs. The directors from airports including those in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Miami, San Francisco and Washington say the TSA's one-size-fits-all security system cannot--and should not--be carried out in the next seven months. For the first time, they call on Mineta to stop or slow the process immediately by getting Congress to back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Airport Revolt | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...will create crowds of people in terminals who could be targets for attacks; the machines would be installed near terminal entrances and thus create huge congestion there. The devices would quickly become outdated, the letter adds, yet require big construction costs. The directors from airports including those in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Miami, San Francisco and Washington say the TSA's one-size-fits-all security system cannot - and should not - be carried out in the next seven months. For the first time, they call on Mineta to stop or slow the process immediately by getting Congress to back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Airport Revolt | 6/2/2002 | See Source »

...immediately at their local Sears store. Or they could have the clothes delivered and, if they didn't fit, exchange them at Sears. "This synchronization of multiple sales channels is absolutely the future of retail," says John Champion, a vice president at Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm in Atlanta. The future may already be here: according to Nielsen/NetRatings, for every dollar spent online for apparel in December 2001, an additional $1.63 was spent offline as a direct result of the online visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recharging Sears | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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