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...college students), but these are worth thumbing through for the sharp comparisons Aiyar makes between China and her own country. Interviews with Beijing's toilet cleaners prompt her to ponder their Indian counterparts. The former harbor entrepreneurial dreams and say they prefer toilets to farmwork; the latter endure a lifelong stigma as "untouchables." In China, Aiyar observes, the word servant "described a job that someone did rather than defining the essence of who they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Other Billion Lives | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

Another difference between the candidates, Paarlberg said, is that McCain has had a “lifelong interest” in foreign policy. Pointing out that Obama has never been to Latin America, Paarlberg called the candidate “distinctively disinterested in foreign policy...

Author: By Adeline S. Rolnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof: Dems Win in Economic Crises | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...five, James Yannatos pointed to a violin in a New York City store window and asked his mother if he could have it. Seventy years and countless performances later, Dr. Yannatos’ lifelong career in music may be ending on a professional level, but it is far from coming to a close...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 45-Year HRO-Pus of Dr. Yannatos | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...We’re trying to get people more aware of walking, getting outside, and connecting it back to the environment,” she said. “One of the points is to develop lifelong habits now in college to carry on in the future...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Competition Gets Students Moving | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

...Cannon on a bench outside the Hair Design Team salon in Troy, where she was taking a smoking break between customers. It was a pleasant afternoon, and from where she sat, the green hills of northeast Missouri - Mark Twain country - rolled gently in every direction. A lifelong resident of Lincoln County, Cannon has seen those hills stitched with new roads and dotted with parking lots, but not so much that she can't still spy open fields in the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For White Working Class, Obama Rises on Empty Wallets | 10/12/2008 | See Source »

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