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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...loved her since I was 10,” said Lynn Gonsalves, a photographer from Hull, Mass., who stood first in line with a camera slung around her neck before the doors opened. “I was always really inspired by everything she did. She’s the reason I’m a photographer...

Author: By Mia P. Walker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leibovitz Promotes New Book in Square | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...vision of serenity. Set against the opulent decor of the lobby of the Inn at Harvard, he is dressed simply in a grey robe and matching pants, a crisp white collar clasped around his neck. Thick bifocals perch gracefully on his nose. Two tufts of snowy-white hair peek from beneath his characteristic red felt hat. He speaks with a soft, gravelly cadence, but carries himself with the gravitas befitting his stature. Chinua Achebe stands as perhaps the most recognizable and lauded African author of modern times. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, his premier novel, “Things...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir and Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Things Come Together | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...statue of one young boy carrying another on his back, with the words chiseled underneath, "He ain't heavy, Father, he's m' brother." During the Great Depression, parents would scrape together bus fare and hang a sign that read "Take Me to Boys Town" around their child's neck. Tysheema Brown, the Atlanta woman who drove 1,000 miles to Omaha to drop off her 12-year-old son, had been taken to Boys Town herself as a teenager. She had tried to get a spot for him in a similar Georgia institution for six months and failed. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defending Nebraska's Child-Abandonment Law | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...many as 10 percent of Caucasian infants—mostly girls—develop the benign tumor after birth. Made up of proliferating blood vessels, the tumor generally appears in the upper neck or head...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Find Likely Tumor Cure | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, outside thousands of protesters had hit the streets near the meeting, shouting "Step down, Ma Ying-jeou!", throwing plastic bottles and rocks, and wearing yellow head and neck bands that read "Taiwan is My Country." The opposition Democratic Progressive Party, wary of any moves to draw closer to China, has staged protests throughout Chen's visit. Some 7000 police have been deployed to maintain order, and a couple of protestors have been injured in the chaos. On Wednesday, hundreds surrounded the hotel where Chen was dining and refused to disperse until 2AM, when Chen could finally leave. "The protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and Taiwan Draw Closer, Amid Protests | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

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