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What is the biggest sin a store designer can commit? When retail establishments see a shopper as a consumer, and they see what they have as a commodity. They are not creating much added value there, no enticement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spacing Out | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...reporting system. But Shays isn't sold on that. He is trying to determine whether cruise lines are keeping some crimes off the books. "There's a huge incentive to downplay any incident, to sail on," says the centrist Republican. "Is going on a cruise the perfect way to commit the perfect crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Rocks The Boats | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

Eight elite colleges and universities and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will commit a combined $27 million to increase the transfer of low-income community college students to selective four-year institutions over the next four years, the foundation announced yesterday. The Cooke Foundation—an education foundation dedicated to funding low-income students at elite colleges—gave a $6.78 million grant to three public and five private highly selective institutions. The participating schools, which were selected from a pool of 48, are University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Group Funds Low Income Students | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

...want to have a lot of abortion clinics questioning a woman and having the woman say ?well, I was raped four months ago, I need an abortion.? We?re trying to be sensitive to women who are legitimate rape victims-and not give abortion clinics a chance to commit fraud on system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is an Abortion Not an Abortion? | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...Arab interlocutor with the Palestinians. Soon after the radical group Hamas stunned the world by winning an upset victory in the Jan. 26, Palestinian parliamentary elections, Sulieman added his voice to those of U.S., European and United Nations leaders in calling on Hamas to recognize Israel, abandon violence and commit to talks aimed at establishing a peaceful Palestinian state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi's Message for the Middle East | 2/20/2006 | See Source »

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