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...good local job as a bank teller, Diaz has to decide whether to join her entire family in Italy, where she'd make more money even as a domestic worker, or stay in Little Italy and raise Magnus alone. "I know my parents worked so hard for me to finish school so I could get an education and not go into domestic work," she says. And Diaz does not want her son to go through what she did. "The income I could earn could not compensate [for] the loneliness," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motherless Generation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...four-year colleges and half as much as an online for-profit like the University of Phoenix, a mega virtual school that has some 200,000 students. And WGU lets you take as many courses as you can fit in a semester, which means some students are able to finish an undergraduate degree in as little as two years. "Before WGU, I would have had to drive almost two hours to Richmond," says Sandy Newsome, a teacher in rural Virginia who is getting her master's in math education. "Learning this all from home seems so much smarter." Sure does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Western, Young Man | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

When I did have it I gave over half of it away. I lost 85%. And I've lost 12% of what was left in the last couple of months. But I never worshipped money. I started middle class. I didn't finish college because I couldn't afford to. I didn't really have it for very long, because I made it real fast when CNN turned the corner, and that's when I gave so much away. Then right after that we did the AOL merger and it went down the toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ted Turner | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...proves Mackey is not so different from the people he disparages to the drug boss. Yes, he lives on the edge and embraces it. But for him, self-deception is not just an exercise; it's an Olympic sport. Fittingly and terribly, The Shield carries him across the finish line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fitting End for The Shield | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...first game, the Crimson seems all set to take the Ivy League by storm. With new additions to its roster and established presences leading the team, Harvard is ready to defend its title and finish what last year’s ending left incomplete...

Author: By Ricky Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '08 SUPPLEMENT: Back for More | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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