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...many law scholars are not surprised by Americans' mad rush to bankruptcy court. Adjusted for inflation, personal borrowing in the U.S. is 10 times greater than in 1960, according to the Federal Reserve. "Now, consumer credit has dried up," says law professor Robert Lawless, an expert on bankruptcy among sole proprietors and small entrepreneurs at the University of Illinois. "That is why people are ending up in bankruptcy court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personal Bankruptcies Hit a High and May Keep Rising | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...years ago in Rome, people were already squirrelly about being estimated. The penalty for refusing to reveal how many people were in your household, how many slaves, how much livestock, was forfeiting it all and becoming a slave yourself. The Bible tells the story of God getting so mad at King David for ordering a census (granted, it was because Satan had talked him into it) that He sent a plague that killed 70,000 people in three days. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Census: Why Our Numbers Matter | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...Valley of Elah and in Lorenzo's Oil fought valiantly to save her terminally ill child's life. It's no wonder that the overwrought film The Greatest, which features Sarandon as mother coping with the death of her 18 year-old son Bennett (Aaron Johnson), feels so familiar; mad, sad mothers represent a large part of her filmography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest: Susan Sarandon as Another Mad, Sad Mom | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...Instead of coming in being scared of her, I was really [mad] about last year because last year she kind of embarrassed me,” Vloka said. “That anger gave me the determination and intensity that I needed...

Author: By Catherine E. Coppinger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vloka Gets Back At Foe | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Last year I was really nervous, but this year I was mad,” Vloka said. “I came in with the confidence that I needed and just believed that I could...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cut Above | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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