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...only natural to want to glimpse the lives behind those concrete façades. Wolf addresses this in the companion volume Inside, subtitled OneHundred by OneHundred, which hones in on Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong's oldest public-housing complex. With the help of a social worker, in April 2007 Wolf gained access to 100 residents of the estate's soon-to-be-demolished Mark I blocks - accommodation of 1950s vintage designed to house the greatest number of people and to be built in the quickest possible time in response to a burgeoning city's housing crisis. He then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photographer Michael Wolf's Tall Order | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...number needs to increase. While elementary enrollment in Afghanistan reached 7 million this year, there are only 60,000 university places. Ultimately Afghanistan has to build its own educational institutions that can graduate qualified professionals, including teachers. But while it does that, the U.S., and its international partners, can help expedite the process by launching an international scholarship program. Not just to the U.S., as the Fulbright program does, but around the world. Yes, there is a possibility that scholarship students will abscond or seek asylum - the program will have to take those risks into account. But every year donors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan's Learning Curve | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...same logic should help Sandra Bullock in her Oscar search. After 10 weeks in theaters, her sports-inspirational drama, The Blind Side, dropped out of the top 10 (all the way down to 11), but it ain't done yet. Bullock won Best Actress awards from the Golden Globe crowd and, on Jan. 23, the Screen Actors Guild; the former long shot is now the favorite to cop an Oscar (over previous front runner Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia). There's no question that the movie's out-of-nowhere success - a $234 million domestic gross on a modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Avatar Weekend: Legion Takes Its Lumps | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

This course will help you understand the sexual brain, such as the scientific ideas behind the concept that gender and sexual orientation are rooted in brain differences. Come on. You know you’re interested. The word “sex” is in the title. | M., W. 1. Link...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week, Day One: Uniquely Yours | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...Russian society has been so disoriented and adrift following the changes of the past 20 years that Putin is playing the old nationalist game to snap people out of it by responding to simplistic messages and emotions. Part of that is rebuilding the equally shattered Russian Orthodox Church and help it snatch up all these parishes abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Russia Wants Its Orthodox Churches Back | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

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