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...myself have received charity when I was in need. When I was a student in London, I was working as a waiter at night. When my tutor found out, she submitted my name to the Quakers, and they then sent me a check for 40 pounds, without any strings attached. I thought as a recipient of charity, that this would be a very dignified thing to do for others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Billionaire George Soros' Private Stimulus Plan | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...back to the lab, and as soon as we saw a sequence of the hemagglutinin, we looked at the receptor binding site and found indications of an alpha-2,6 binding specificity," Daniels, 54, recalls. "I knew then - we have a problem." (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters: Racing to Outsmart a Pandemic | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...originally called the Jewish Free School) was at first found to be exempt from race-relations laws. But when the case was taken to appeal, judges ruled that the school was violating the law created in 1976 to end racial discrimination in the U.K. The decision rocked Britain's faith schools and sparked a debate over the basis of religious identity as Britain's Jewish community found itself asking, What or who defines someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.K.'s Jewish-School Ruling: Who Decides Who Is a Jew? | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will spend another 18 months as a prisoner of Burma's military junta, a Rangoon court decreed today. She was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man called John Yettaw swam to her lakeside house in Rangoon in May. Yettaw, who has been in poor health, was sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Court Finds Aung San Suu Kyi Guilty | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

...When I found out I was terminal, I knew there was one thing I had to do: protect my children," Picat said in a March interview with TV channel TF1. "I needed to be sure they'd be able to live normally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Mourns the Death of 'Mother Courage' | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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