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...Nevertheless, the thinking goes, if San Francisco's local plan for the uninsured takes off, it could be a model for other metropolitan regions nationwide. "This is a city that wants to right the proverbial wrongs," Newsom says. "We tend to march to the beat of our own drum and that, hopefully, is something that can awaken people's imaginations elsewhere...
...beanbags, says this Dutch company, is "you won't end up with 200 million little polystyrene balls on the floor." The giant rectangles and "islands" are made from supersturdy nylon and filled with body-molding "memory balls." Choose from 16 colors, three Marimekko prints - and there's even a model for your pooch. fatboy.nl
...single most amazing thing to ever happen to me." Actress Molly Ringwald said she went into shock. Even for those accustomed to the spotlight, being on the cover of TIME Magazine is a major milestone. But what happens when someone who isn't famous, or even a model, actually wakes up one day to find themselves the face of America's most popular newsmagazine...
...forgot about the entire session until last Sunday when friends began calling to congratulate her and her husband, Ramanan Thiagarajah. "We totally thought they were joking," she says. Since then, she has been inundated with calls from around the world. As it turns out, Thiagarajah is an appropriate model for the story on the globalization of India: she's Indian but grew up in Nigeria and is married to a Sri Lankan, with whom she lives in California...
...government can find vehicles to help people. Create accounts where we match what low-income families are able to save. Access to college is a big thing. We need to knock down some of the bureaucratic barriers for low-income kids to go to college. We've got a model project that we've got in place for a small poor county in eastern North Carolina, where we call College for Everyone, where every child in the county can go to college. We pay for their tuition and books their first year, if they commit to work 10 hours...