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...credit-card bills and little or no savings. One by one they rise and recite their goals: to buy a home, start a business, finance a child's education. Dwana Washington, 42, says she would like to do all these things and also build up her $1,000 nest egg--a daunting ambition, considering how much she spends each month on day care for her three kids. Another woman volunteers that she is saving $11 a month by getting rid of call waiting and three-way calling. Bembry approves: "You've got to reprogram your thinking--separate your needs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Management: Ministers Of Finance | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...your kids have made it through college. That leaves you with a little money to spend on yourself, right? Not yet. What parents are discovering is that in a wobbly economy, the kids don't quite leave the financial nest. Sandy Nelson, 57, an elementary school teacher, thought her daughter Annalise could have her pick of well-paying positions in consulting firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. But the senior at Harvard, set to graduate this June with a 3.75 grade-point average, is waiting out the tough economy by moving to France in August to teach English part time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Family Finances: Parental Aid | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...makes this Spider-Man a nest of conflicting ambitions. Every Hollywood marketing impulse screams for the movie to be zippily cartoonish. Yet the story is also Rebel Without a Cause: an agitated boy, the girl he loves, his best friend (James Franco as the Goblin's son) and some adults who never quite get it. Will Spider-Man be Ghostbusters or Ghost World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Spidey Swings | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...Working out in the hot sun isn’t that much fun,” said Ariana Barr, a junior at Boston Latin. Guillery cringed about working high up on the scaffolding, saying he always preferred to be on the ground. Once, he recalled, his crew disturbed a nest of bees in a decaying wall and had to run for cover...

Author: By Lindsey E. Mccormack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Kids on the Block | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

...round off dinner, we had the Bird’s Nest, a dessert that was as much a feast for the eyes as it was for the mouth. The ring of phyllo pastry was crisp and flaky, filled with a delectable crumble of walnuts. Decorating the pastry was a colorful palate of fruits, laced with pistachios and sugar. We also sampled a couple of Zalaaby Fritters, fried balls soaked in sweet syrup...

Author: By Elaine C. Kwok, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

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