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...Fifteen years ago, Kerry Killinger took over a tiny regional thrift called Washington Mutual. Today he runs the nation's seventh largest financial firm and has a rep for bringing customer service--such as free checking--back to banks. He talked shop with TIME's BARBARA KIVIAT...
...Fifteen minutes before the service starts, 100 middle schoolers are already squeezed into a basement rumpus room. The weekly worship for middle schoolers at Grace Chapel in the Boston suburb of Lexington, Mass., is called the Edge, a fitting name for a gathering that appears to be on the brink of anarchy. In one corner girls pouring orange juice giggle contagiously as the juice spills on the table, carpet and doughnuts. In another corner a number of boys are exploring ways to injure themselves with folded metal chairs--like swinging them at one another. A soccer ball zips past...
Above all, the researchers are trying to stop the spread of AIDS, which has been an epidemic for many years now. In December 2002, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS estimated that 42 million people were living with HIV/AIDS globally, 3.2 million of whom were children under fifteen. Thirteen thousand people contract the virus daily...
Concentration statistics have followed a similar pattern as enrollment statistics. Fifteen students concentrated in Af Am this year, up from 11 students last year, but down from 21 students in 2001-2002 and 34 students in the 1997-1998 academic year...
...Fifteen years is long enough. I was beginning to feel like Mobutu,” he jokes, referring to the former dictator of Zaire, Mobutu Sésé Seko...