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...year. Next year, HFAI will address significantly more of these families’ financial needs, including the elimination of parental contribution for families earning under $60,000 a year. As impressive as this sounds, these initial 25 percent of families are the metaphorical warm-up jaunt through scrub brush and pine needles in anticipation of the difficult, rocky climb ahead...
...Crash, his gritty film exploring racial differences. He wrote the screen-play for Clint Eastwood's film Flags of Our Fathers and also one for the new James Bond adventure, Casino Royale. Now he's working on a TV series. Haggis spoke with TIME's Coeli Carr about his brush with mortality and life after...
Every once in a while, a story about a bizarre pharmaceutical side effect races through the media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping pill called Ambien and its apparent ability to compel some users to eat voraciously in their sleep. Never mind the fact that this particular side effect is seemingly rare--or that it was first reported four years ago. Thousands of sleep-deprived Americans are now wondering if Ambien could turn them into mega-munching zombies...
...frowning, as she tries to hold her flag steady and perfectly upright. It wasn’t easy, she says later, because the flag was very heavy, especially for a woman. She was nervous about the technicalities at first: the flag is not supposed to touch the ground or brush the ceiling. But as she marches those worries disappear, and she contemplates the symbolism of what she is doing. She is carrying the flag to represent not only her own battalion, but the entire army. We’re fighting under this flag, she thinks, and I am holding...
Unlike oil, where a mistake can be rectified with more paint, it is nearly impossible to hide a slip of the brush when working with translucent watercolor; consequently the artist’s hand is very evident in the work. “I love the fluency and immediacy,” Stebbins noted...