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British designer Alice Temperley is the eighth to take part in Target's wildly successful GO program, which has turned young, hard-to-pronounce designers like Proenza Schouler and Behnaz Sarafpour into household names. Temperley's collection of whimsical prints and tailored pieces will be sold at Target in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shopping | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

...couldn't afford in the long term. Now, as they endure the heart-wrenching saga of slowly losing their homes, the whole neighborhood suffers: according to a study by Dan Immergluck at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a house loses 1% of its value for each foreclosure within an eighth of a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ground Zero of the Real Estate Bust | 8/16/2007 | See Source »

...their eyebrows through the standard plastic panel that encases the driver’s seat. For the first few days, I thought (or hoped) that their looks of confusion had more to do with the plastic—maybe they couldn’t hear me through its one-eighth inch thickness...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng | Title: What the Taxi Driver Said | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

Even here, though, there may be grounds for a hopeful outlook. Boys at the fourth- and eighth-grade levels are showing modest improvement in reading and now trail their female classmates by slightly smaller margins than before. If that's a sign of improved teaching and parental focus on reading, then we ought to expect gains in the higher grades soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth About Boys | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...process backed science, as it was then understood. The mass murder of "unfit" individuals and ethnic groups by the Nazis gave eugenics a black mark that can never be washed off. But the issue marches on; in 2004 a eugenics supporter won the Republican congressional nomination in Tennessee's Eighth District (the GOP disavowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Matters of Morality | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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