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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first three years, she drove the diapers around herself and learned to use a pallet jack; today she has two full-time employees and buys 250,000 diapers at a time straight from a manufacturer. She has yet to find any makers who will give them to her free. Goldblum, who works on the project full time but does not draw a salary, has talked to some 50 people about starting diaper banks. "We know of six who have taken the next step," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting a Diaper Bank | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Margarito has a decision to make: After more than a decade of living and working illegally in the U.S., is it time to go back home to Mexico? He and his wife lost their jobs recently (he from a pallet factory, she from Burger King, both for having invalid Social Security numbers). He has been looking for other work, but his search is greatly complicated by measure 5-190, a ballot initiative enthusiastically approved by his neighbors and former colleagues that will, if it survives a court challenge, impose a $10,000 fine on anyone in the county who gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Backlash, Illegal Immigrants Stay Put | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...warren of hastily built cement blocks sliced by grand new boulevards and glass high-rises, Changsha - China's 19th largest metropolis - is immersed in the din of construction and the grey pallet of soot and smoke common to the cities of a booming China. Mao Ce's city is a rough and tumble place, and he and his cohort occupy a unique place in modern Chinese history. Products of China's vigorously enforced one-child policy, twenty-somethings like Mao feel that they've been left to shoulder the mistakes of their government even as they adapt to a society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Lost Generation | 7/7/2008 | See Source »

...realize that our two day fashion bender has come to a close. We’ve consolidated our learning experience into three key tenets. 1. Metallic is still in. Feel free to keep those ’80s accessories in the closet.2. A fresh, bright color pallet will spice up the most conventional of outfits. Think yellow, cerulean (not blue!), magenta, and red. 3. You can’t have too many minidresses and skirts for the fall. We’d also recommend stockings, unless global warming makes fall the new summer.But what ultimately matters is what Tim Gunn...

Author: By Aditi Banga and Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Hitting The Runway | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...offered by Atlanta writer Lisa McLeod, who got the family to Georgia. Brown first moved in with a Marietta couple. By the end of September she found her den. It's pretty crowded these days. Vivian and two cousins share bunk beds, while Angeline and Dasia sleep on a pallet of quilts and pads. But things are looking up. Angeline loves elementary school and wants to play the flute. Vivian is happy with her middle school, where she sings in the choir and hopes to join the track team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Displaced: Which Way Is Home? | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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