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...Texas, which was originally set up to handle the military's worst burn cases but is now taking the overflow amputees from Walter Reed. TIME correspondents Amanda Bower and Cathy Booth Thomas and photographer James Nachtwey spent time with the doctors and patients who together are writing the next chapter of their lives--and of combat medicine...
Today 70% of individuals who file for bankruptcy protection do so under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code, which requires that most of your assets be confiscated but wipes out most debt, such as medical and credit-card bills (though you're still obligated to pay any child support, taxes and student loans). Under the new law, less debt can be erased under Chapter 7. And if your income is above the median in your state--and you can afford to pay at least $6,000 over five years--you will be forced into Chapter 13, which requires a repayment...
...Chapter 13 filers are given a budget with allowances for things like food and utilities but no amenities. Any income you earn above that level gets divvied among creditors for three to five years. (Under the new law, more people will be pushed into five-year plans.) And you may have to repay bigger chunks of certain types of debt, such as car loans...
After its initial tour-de-force presentation of an unusually volatile chapter in history, Inside Deep Throat begins to lose steam about two-thirds of the way through. It loses sight of its principal and most compelling storyline—the rise and fall of its stars Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems and director Gerard Damiano—and begins grabbing at socio-historical miscellany to spice things up. The resulting mishmash of music, fashion, and other cultural trivia resembles a bad VH1 “I Love the (insert date here)” special, when the demigods...
...succeeds in his hopes to reignite TDX’s Crimson tradition—minus the house—the frat would be the fifth on campus and the second new Greek club to come to Harvard in the last two years. Though Delta Upsilon’s Harvard chapter withdrew its official frat status this year—the men now call themselves the Oak Club—Greek life apparently remains strong...