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...story - that of a a 7-year-old who saw every home he knew destroyed, lost his mother to murderers and his father to the SPLA - fits securely in the history of Sudan's second civil war but also stands on its own. Against a beast of a war that spiraled into battles between all those fighting to survive, Jal who struggles not to become a brutal killer of jallabas, eventually succumbs in order to survive. Unlike many of the Lost Boys, however, Jal finds salvation through the grace of two women who steer him toward education. His subsequent life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sudanese Lost Boy, Found | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...their audience grows, the threat is not just to the companies that own them, but also to the news itself," wrote the savvy New York Times columnist David Carr last month in a column endorsing the idea of paid content. This creates a necessity that ought to be the mother of invention. In addition, our two most creative digital innovators have shown that a pay-per-drink model can work when it's made easy enough: Steve Jobs got music consumers (of all people) comfortable with the concept of paying 99 cents for a tune instead of Napsterizing an entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save Your Newspaper | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...reinvent language each day or even each generation. Obama is an African American--literally. His father was African, his mother was American. It took us all these years to get a black man into the White House. We're not giving that brother up anytime soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...also giving away boats, trucks and gift cards as part of the game. Overall, it's distributing $10 million in cash and prizes to its top fantasy performers. During fantasy fishing's '08 debut, many winners got lucky. Shellee Kuykendall, a stay-at-home mother of two in Little Rock, Ark., didn't know fishing even had a pro circuit until she heard about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Make $1 Million Fishing Online? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Three other Cambridge restaurants—Hungry Mother, Oleana, and Craigie on Main—made the magazine?...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Eateries Score High | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

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