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...write notes to people? I had a dry-erase board I'd take around but I didn't use it much. It made me avoid social interactions more than I already do. I just turned into a shut-in who dreaded going grocery shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joanna Newsom | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...nice thing was that I live in a small town, so people got used to it. It was only if I saw a stranger would I have to go through the whole rigmarole of pointing to the sign and writing on the dry-erase board. Usually people would say, "Still no voice?" and I'd nod and they'd be like, "Sorry, man!" I kept to limited circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joanna Newsom | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Weight-Loss Boarding School When marathon runner and educator Ryan Craig opened Wellspring Academy in 2004, it was the only residential obesity-treatment center of its kind. (Others existed mostly in clinical settings.) A former board member of the Aspen Education Group - one organization behind those wilderness programs for troubled teens - Craig learned about the staggering U.S. obesity rates and saw an enormous untapped market for a weight-loss school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obesity Rehab for Kids Work? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Brighton Allston Historical Society and Heritage Museum are planning to use the $15,000 grant to “instill pride in the neighborhood” by constructing two outdoor historical installations in North Allston to create a “museum without walls,” according to board member Linda L. Mishkin...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Awards Allston Grants to Groups | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...initiative imperative persists. Every five minutes Birch hooks a customer. "My job is to make people aware and to get signatures," says Birch, 44, who earns free board from Professional Petition Consultants if he makes his quota of 1,400 signatures a week. Theresa Williams, 29, is shopping, with 2-year-old Eithan in her cart. Birch approaches her with a measure that would prevent Sacramento from tapping local transportation projects' and municipal governments' coffers to balance the state's chronically unbalanced budget. In quick succession he pitches measures to close a corporate tax loophole, fund the state's parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Initiative Culture Broke California | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

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