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Severe unemployment certainly boosts business for pawnshops, but so too does the high price of gold. The precious metal's price is up to more than $1,200 an ounce, vs. about $860 in January 2009. Suddenly, dusting off that old flame's gold necklace is an easy way to score a quick loan. "With the price of gold moving higher, it allows individuals to get a bigger loan, and that has been a stimulus to driving increased pawn lending," says Joshua Elving, a senior analyst at Feltl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pawnshops Flourish in Hard Times, Drawing Scrutiny | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

Adams House Master and Harvard Medical School professor Judith S. Palfrey '67 will leave her historic Cambridge abode to carry the 2010 Olympic Flame Tuesday, Jan. 19 across a 300-yard stretch in Calgary, Canada...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Master To Carry Olympic Torch in Calgary | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

Palfrey will join a group of 20 torchbearers selected by the Coca-Cola Company—including Olympic gold medallists Shawn Johnson and Steven Lopez—to run a two-day leg of the Olympic Torch Relay. The relay will last for 106 days as the Olympic Flame makes its way across Canada to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in February...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Master To Carry Olympic Torch in Calgary | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

While social networking has brought together long-lost friends and rekindled many an old flame, Facebook has evolved to fill yet another role - an outlet for grieving. People the world over can post messages, photos and videos, and specialized sites offer interactive forums in which the bereft can chat with therapists and with one another. Calmly and quietly, the Web has put grievers in touch with all sorts of people who can help support them through the pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grieving on Facebook: How the Site Helps People | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

...where about 100,000 were eventually resettled. It was not until 1997 that Washington officially acknowledged the valor of the Hmong soldiers. A small stone with a copper plaque was placed in their honor between the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery. (Read "A Blackbird's Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hmong and the CIA | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

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