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...somewhere along the line that transition has slowed to a crawl. In a TIME poll of people ages 18 to 29, only 32% of those who attended college left school by age 21. In fact, the average college student takes five years to finish. The era of the four-year college degree is all but over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grow Up? Not So Fast | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. Thatcher admitted that he inadvertently provided mercenaries with money for a helicopter, but said he believed it would be used as an air ambulance for humanitarian purposes. As part of his plea bargain, Thatcher received a $506,000 fine and a four-year suspended prison sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...much as, decades ago, national-security programs sprang up to address the issues of the cold war. Community colleges--already in the business of training fire fighters, police officers and medical technicians to deal with hurricanes and earthquakes--were first to mount new certification programs tailored to unnatural disasters. Four-year institutions quickly followed. Last fall San Diego State launched an interdisciplinary master's degree in homeland security, attracting students from nursing, criminal justice and political science. The University of Southern California is offering an online master's in system safety and security, for which students examine such problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeland Security 101 | 12/30/2004 | See Source »

...community task force reached a final draft phase of its four-year Strategic Framework for Planning, a neighborhood blueprint put together in concert with Harvard and the city that will eventually be submitted to the community and zoning board...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Help Allston Improve | 12/20/2004 | See Source »

...came up with two alternatives for changing the Council's composition. The first would expand the permanent membership from five to 11 nations and increase the number elected to rotating terms from 10 to 13. The second proposal would create a middle tier of eight members elected to renewable four-year terms, and add a new two-year term. Under both proposals, the Security Council would grow from 15 to 24 seats. But neither idea grants the new members the right to veto resolutions--or the influence that it bestows. Such power would rest only with the original five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a Better Model For the U.N.? | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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