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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Take, for instance, Altagracia Familia, a former schoolteacher in the Dominican Republic who now lives in New York City and sells empanadas and coconut sweets. Her vending cart used to be wooden, but then she upgraded to metal. Not by way of a loan, though. Familia slowly saved profits and bought a new cart once she had amassed $7,000. What she spent her Grameen loan on is much less flashy: ingredients and cart repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Microfinance Make It in America? | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

After loading his clubs onto a cart, Obama, wearing sunglasses, a white shirt, khaki shorts, white and brown golf shoes, and a red baseball cap emblazoned with the City and County of Honolulu's Ocean Safety logo, drove down to the driving range. Standing next to Whitaker, Obama , with a white glove on his right hand, took three practice swings. His first shot was a ground ball straight ahead. His next shot went airborne but created a divot that Obama walked out to pick up and replace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good is Barack Obama at Golf? | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...grill orders seem really inadequate compared to Real Food. 2. “Project Runway” While reading Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road,” I more than once imagined evening gowns constructed from spare pipe, empty canned food containers, and shopping cart parts. In other words, this show bestows upon you an amazingly overactive utilitarian mentality. Also, avant-garde—that is all. 1. “The Amazing Race” Geography and stereotypes—one is dangerously ignored in standard education curricula, and the other is a little...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What I Really Learned From Reality Television | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...free one for the Google phone called Cooking Capsules. Each of the six dishes comes with an excellent how-to video, a grocery list and clear instructions. As with the DS titles, you can check off each item on your shopping list as you put it in your grocery cart. And a slider lets you adjust quantities for more or fewer people. I made halibut steamed in parchment paper, and it came out perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ditch the Cookbook: iPhone as Kitchen Helper | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...small town's Dionysian "Dirty Day" festival: "Those bulging sacks on the cart contain moist soil and live ants, the big, juicy, biting kind, bred and nurtured especially for tonight's extravaganza. Apparently, the ants are sprinkled with vinegar just before the main event, to get them really angry. An army of ant scatterers emerges from behind us, each one with a bag of the anty soil, which they launch into the air above our heads. Screams go up as the sky fills with soil and very annoyed ants...Everyone is maniacally scraping mud and insects from their hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Eat a Whole Spanish Hog | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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