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...minute video that the college student had posted to his profile by noon, he documents his pre-dawn drive to a nearby elementary school and explains why he chose a paper ballot over the computerized touchscreen (he didn't trust the high-tech option). By the time he drove away, a few minutes after 6 a.m. - the polling site's opening time - a line of voters had formed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

Eventually, Brown's wife drove up the avenue after completing her morning mission: delivering wheelchairs to precincts where exhausted and disabled voters might need them. Brown loaded his chair into the car and climbed aboard. His journey was, in the end, faster than he had expected. - By Karen Ball / Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Day Dispatches: It's Morning for the Kenyan Obamas | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...Crimson survived the scare. Harvard’s next scoring threat came late in the second half, minutes after Dodds’ penalty stroke, when the Crimson had its one and only opportunity to tie the game. Dickson again led the attack. This time, the freshman received the ball, drove into the circle, and fired a shot on net, but Vakiener stopped the attempt and cleared the threat, preserving her first shutout of the season. Vakiener had two saves on the afternoon, while Stone registered three stops. The Big Green had a wide edge in shots...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Drops Fifth Straight | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...indefatigable Army engineer Robert Furman, who died Oct. 14 at 93, drove more than four hours through a winter storm to dedicate the offices where he had worked 64 years earlier as a key aide to the head of the top-secret Manhattan Project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Furman | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...behind the actual transactions that some traders simply let it run out. Trades happened so quickly that although people knew they were losing money, they didn't know how much. Rumors of investors jumping out of buildings spread through Wall Street; although they weren't true, they drove the prices down further. Brokers called in margins; if stockholders couldn't pay up, their stocks were sold, wiping out many an investor's life savings in an instant. So many trades were made - each recorded on a slip of paper - that traders didn't know where to store them, and ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crash of 1929 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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