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Mehdi, who, his oldest son says, "loved the Americans," was the sole breadwinner for his large family of 13, which includes the two wives of his oldest sons and three grandchildren. The Shi'ite family lived in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of al-Dora in southern Baghdad up until the peak of sectarian violence in late 2006. That was when Mehdi's youngest son Ali, then 4, was kidnapped by insurgents and held for ransom for more than a week. After paying to get him back, the family left all their furniture and belongings and fled to Karrada, a safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incident on Baghdad's Airport Road | 7/26/2008 | See Source »

...Trouble began last February, when Marlene Armstrong, 44, her two daughters and two grandchildren became the first black family to rent on an all-white west side Cleveland street. There were taunts (''Nigger! Get off the porch!''), broken windows, fireworks assaults, ugly spray-painted graffiti (KKK) on the side of the house. Someone installed a ceramic black jockey on the lawn. One night last week a gang of young whites began launching bottle rockets toward the Armstrong house, but suddenly the fun went out of it. A 23-year-old friend of the Armstrongs' fired a shotgun at the whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLEVELAND'S NEIGHBORLY WAY | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...trial was already in motion. Resident after resident testified about years of personal conversations held with city and county officials who did nothing to keep their promises to help. Kennedy, Hairston and two other residents stated that in 2001, Muskingum County Commissioner Dorothy Montgomery told them that even their "grandchildren's grandchildren would not have water." Montgomery could not be reached, but Landes says she denies making the comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Water a Matter of Race | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

Thousands of adults like Fowler find themselves renegotiating sex in singlehood, after years or even decades of marriage, and they are in need of the same kind of sex-ed their grandchildren get. In a University of Chicago survey of single women ages 58 to 93, nearly 60% said they didn't use a condom the last time they had sex. A May 2008 study conducted by the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed that among single people with at least two sexual partners, 56% of people over age 45 reported using condoms the last time they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Midlife (and Older) STDs | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

...colony, named for the Hindi word for wooden puppet, began a half century ago with seven tents housing an extended family of puppeteers - gypsies from Rajasthan. Next came the magicians, nomadic Muslims from South India. They were joined, in the 1970s, by acrobats from Mumbai. Today, the children and grandchildren of these pioneers work New Delhi's weddings, birthday parties and the five-star hotel circuit, and many jet-set around the world to perform at international festivals, all expenses paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magic Abounds in a Delhi Slum | 6/20/2008 | See Source »

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