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...cash ("It was the nineties, dammit, and they were getting rich. Just like everybody else"), MacDonald did his best to shirk responsibility - including his tax-paying duties. After several IRS agents came calling to collect nearly $2,000 in back taxes, MacDonald began to ponder questions like, "In basic animal terms, what does it take for a human being to survive? Maybe I didn't need to swallow up half of the Rolling Rock and Ecstasy for sale in central Maryland. Maybe I didn't need alot of the things I consumed ... What if I found a way to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Story of Self-Induced Starvation | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...Methodist pastor and the dean of spiritual life, to help students deepen their faith by expanding it. Research suggests that like everything else in one's college years, spirituality is a protean thing. Most high schoolers tend to follow their parents' religion, often without actually knowing many of its basic tenets and stories (half of U.S. high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married). That may be why religion doesn't stick once they go off to college: a UCLA study published in 2007 found that undergrads become less observant as they get older, with 44% of incoming freshmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Winchester | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Here are answers to five basic questions about the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Questions (and Answers) About Citi's Bailout | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...current proposition specifies two main tracks within Classics—classical languages and literatures and classical civilizations—both of which would see the number of basic requirements reduced from 12 to 11 because of the delayed date for concentration declaration...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classics Dept. Considers Changes to Requirements | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...number of policy changes at both state and federal levels have left basic cash-assistance programs scarce, the center's study argues. State general-assistance programs were largely eliminated across the country in the late 1980s and early '90s, except for programs benefiting the disabled. On the federal level, only about 40% of families eligible for cash assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program actually receive it. That is about half the percentage of families eligible for the program's predecessor (the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program) that received benefits during the recessions of earlier decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out of the Bailout: The Poor | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

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