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...problem with the stimulus package as it is conceived now is that it may simply be too broad. It lets water run through breaches in the dam while hoping to strengthen parts which have not burst. It's a hard way to keep the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macy's: The Retail Universe in a Box | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...come a long way since 1976, when the focus was on the four-year music school, with a nursing-degree program and other degrees offered as well. Shenandoah is not all about religion and spirituality. It's a great place for an education in many fields. Sandra L. Van Dam, BROOMFIELD, COLO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...installations.“I want to see what’s on the other side of the science and the math and the models,” Sluzas said.While Sluzas has yet to choose a concrete place to live, she is considering a city near the Three Gorges Dam, a hydroelectric river dam in China whose construction required a massive relocation of over a million Chinese residents. PHOTOGRAPHING HIVSmith will work on educational organizations and explore photojournalism in KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa.A lover of photojournalism, Smith said she will be taking pictures and using them...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Awarded Grant To Explore | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...become politically active, enlivening and inspiring the gay community to speak out against injustice. Throughout the film, Milk is shown making a recording, which he says should be played only if he were to be assassinated. On the recording he says, “I tried to break the dam of major prejudice in this country.” Although Milk indeed begins to break down barriers, the movie foreshadows his untimely death. “Police hated us, and we hated them right back,” Milk says on the tape. The film begins with actual black...

Author: By Marissa A. Glynias, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Milk | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...city that receives just 4 in. of rain a year, residents in the sprawling housing developments where much of the Las Vegas population lives use an average of 165 gal. of water a day--and 90% of that comes from Lake Mead, the reservoir created by Hoover Dam in 1935. Lake Mead holds Nevada's 130 billion gal. share of the Colorado River's flow, split with six other states in the West--and for decades, says Pat Mulroy, head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, "we'd assumed it was virtually drought-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dying for A Drink | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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