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Wooing Jews Barack Obama met recently with about 100 Jewish activists to assuage doubts about his commitment to Israel (during the Feb. 26 debate, he said Israel's "security is sacrosanct"), his faith (in the face of false rumors that he's Muslim) and his longtime pastor (who has praised Louis Farrakhan). Several Jewish leaders have defended Obama against the Islam rumors. Hillary Clinton won among Jewish voters in New York and Maryland, but Obama won Jews in Connecticut and California. Is the wooing working? Exit polls in Texas and Ohio on March 4 should tell which candidate...
...That's partly because P2P members are motivated to pay back or lend to an actual person rather than a big bank. Since May 2006, Marilyn Paguirigan of Honolulu has lent a total of $30,000 to more than 100 people on Prosper, most of whom she has never met. "I measure my returns in not just the dollar amount," says Paguirigan, who happily makes 6% to 7% on her loans. "It's in the fulfillment I get from helping people." Here's a typical P2P loan...
TIME: One of the characters is a prisoner on death row. How did you study up on that?Picoult: I sweet-talked my way to the death cells [at an Arizona prison]. Nobody I met on death row who works there believes in the death penalty. They all say it's their...
...constantly adapt, Giron says. Soon after an operation ends, it reviews how well its team was structured and whether there were gaps in skills and systems. Says Giron: "We give that feedback to the team leader. A year later, we review the entire operation to make sure needs were met, and if they weren't, then we decide what to do." Myton, for her part, is in the field assessing CARE's current efforts in flood-ravaged Bolivia. In the disaster business, videoconferencing can't substitute for being out with your teams...
...clandestinely, sparked his general interest in governmental secrecy. “I began to wonder, when people censor documents and things they’ve said, what do they understand as being necessary to stop the movement of knowledge around the world?” he says.Galison and Moss met at Harvard, where they began teaching a class together, History of Science 152: “Filming Science,” in which students create short films on scientific and technological processes. “It turns out sharing a classroom is not a bad diagnostic for sharing a film...