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...nutshell, because single women, even those with kids, have an easier time supporting themselves outside marriage than they used to. More women are working, increasingly for wages that are competitive with those of men. Women are having children later in life, and fewer of them. On top of that, a growing percentage of women who have children but aren't married don't live on their own. In 1970, 62% of single mothers were the only adult in their household, but by 2006, just 55% were living without another means of support - thanks to more women cohabitating with a male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economic Benefits of Marriage: A Closing Gap | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...trying to turbo-charge those efforts by bringing in private donations. He's set up a foundation linked to UNITAID that will collect the voluntary airline-ticket levy and distribute it to key players in the field of medical assistance in Africa and elsewhere. Recipients will include the U.N. children's agency UNICEF and the Clinton foundation. As well as targeting HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the money will also be spent on improving maternal health and reducing child mortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Airline-Ticket Tax to Aid the Developing World | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

George L. Walsh, former captain of the Harvard University Police Department, possessed an alarming capacity for generosity—sometimes even at the expense of his children’s comfort. On his morning commutes to Harvard, Walsh would periodically embarrass his children by stopping his car to offer rides to strangers standing along Mt. Auburn St.—he knew bus stops were especially fertile places to find people. “Dad, what are you doing?” daughter Barbara J. Walsh remembers asking her father on those morning trips. The genial former police captain...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HUPD Capt., Giving Soul, Dies at 91 | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...solemn assessment by that the "graphic and shocking, albeit brief, exposure of Janet Jackson's bare right breast to a nationwide audience composed of millions of children and adults" warrants - lo, these 5½ years after that insanely overhyped distraction from the Iraq war - further investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Entries are in several categories, from children's garments to clothes that can be reflected under UV light to create exciting effects. There are categories for clothes inspired by Maori culture and for deeply sculptural garments, incorporating pleating, wrinkling and crimping. Recycling has been a common theme among this year's entries, which include pieces constructed from used neckties, old sofa parts and worn-out bicycle tires. Canadian designer Angela Bright has created Let Them Drink Tea - a dress inspired by 18th century French court excess but made with tea bags and coffee filters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be WOWed By Montana World of Wearable Art | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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