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...number right? Probably not. When looking at a market as large as mortgage-backed securities, once the magnitude becomes too great, it is impossible to be precise to the last dime. But, the figure is almost certainly within a narrow range of the actual problem big banks still face. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Citibank Really Out of the Woods? | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...That's the plight of most everyone in Burma, even the ethnic Burmese. Balancing on a narrow bamboo raft in the middle of the Irrawaddy River, ethnic Burmese migrant Aung Tun sifts for specks of gold. Over the past decade, Chinese demand for gold has skyrocketed, and thousands of ethnic Burmese have moved to Kachin to pan for the mineral, as well as mine jade. But for the right to float his raft on the river, Aung Tun must pay fees to the Burmese government, the Burmese police and the KIO. If the specks of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

That is the key. Gallup polls show that by huge margins, Muslims reject the notion that the U.S. genuinely wants to help them. The new Administration, with a fresh eye on the world, wants to bolster the position of the U.S. But "Obama will have a narrow window to act," says Burkholder, "because the U.S. has failed so often in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quiet Revolution Grows in the Muslim World | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...prepare students for the world beyond school is actually a criticism of itself for failing to realize that single-sex students are involved in the world beyond their school. Do the critics really believe single-sex students do nothing other than attend single-sex schools? It’s narrow-minded to say that single-sex students will not have sufficient interaction with the opposite sex and will somehow lack cooperative or social qualities. It also assumes individuals don’t develop after finishing single-sex schooling...

Author: By Justin Lanning | Title: Educational Alternative | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...their own way, the new Gen Ed categories are broad enough to give professors the leeway to teach the subject matter they want. But with a limited selection of departmental alternatives, student choice may remain narrow. In the meantime, freshmen are relatively uninformed about the change...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kicking the Core to the Curb | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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