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TheCultivate.com is her response to that need: the service will feature the collections of not-yet-established designers—usually five to seven years out of design school, according to el Habashy—in an online store that will collect demographic information from customers and redistribute that information to wholesalers and buyers for boutiques...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors: Heba El Habashy | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...health care reform and why it's so ripe for mischaracterization. For instance, to prevent people from purchasing long-term-care coverage when they are already in need, the CLASS Act requires that enrollees be employed and pay into the system for five years before becoming eligible to collect benefits. But because the CBO evaluates the costs of legislation - like the Senate reform bill - based on 10-year periods, the CLASS Act - which would begin collecting premiums in 2011 but wouldn't begin payouts until 2016 - appears to generate $72.5 billion in savings between 2010 and 2019. On paper, these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Long-Term-Care Insurance Be Part of Health Reform? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...confused with “dumpster-diving”—involves scavenging grocery store dumpsters after hours for food that is still packaged and edible, Greeney explains. She and her housemates, who jokingly call themselves the “Hippo Commune,” mostly collect pies, tarts, cakes, and bread from trash bags they find at the top of dumpsters...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Shares Food Salvaged From Dumpster | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...Humanure) Jenkins, nothing could be better news. "On a small scale, my system works like a dream," he says. "But in order to do more research and development, I need to to collect humanure on a larger scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...contrast is stark. At the government-run Islamabad Model College for Boys, an aged and unarmed doorman provides security. If someone hopped over the walls out of sight of the guard, no one would know. At the end of the school day, anxious fathers crowd around the gate, collect their children and scurry toward a traffic jam of cars choking the street. A suicide bomber would find it a tempting target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban's War on Schoolchildren | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

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