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...magazine will be similar to the other editions of TIME, which 32 million people around the world read each week. TIME AUSTRALIA will retain the parent magazine's award-winning design and news coverage. In addition, TIME AUSTRALIA will feature a new section, Australia, that will focus on major national news events. Other stories about life Down Under will appear throughout TIME AUSTRALIA in various sections of each issue, such as Economy & Business, Books, Medicine and Sport...
Squeal of joy, the kind that parents can pay for but not buy. "Oh, Daddy!" the five-year-old said, staring out at the magic monorail, "thank you so much for bringing me here!" The boy's father must have wondered what he or Walt Disney Co. could do for an encore. The family's vacationland adventure had just begun; in fact, they were still at Orlando International Airport, in transit from the arrivals lounge to baggage claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured...
Television Star BILL COSBY at the University of South Carolina, Columbia: "As a parent, I know that four years of college bring nothing more than a learned person in terms of books, tests, notes. But that maturity, that ability to read other human beings, that maturity to make a decision based on what is needed as opposed to what you want--there's no degree for that. It's a happy time for you. It's a time to get it together, collect your family, collect the love and then collect yourselves, because now comes the maturity of self...
...half have reversed the virulent course of world hunger. Still, they have made some small inroads. Revenues from Live Aid, British Pop Star Bob Geldof's celebrity-stacked, bicontinental hunger concert, combined with the money raised by USA for Africa (which produced We Are the World and is the parent organization of Hands), total more than $140 million. Working with various relief groups, the Geldof organization has already shipped more than 100,000 metric tons of supplies to Africa. Proceeds from Hands, which optimistic organizers estimate could reach | about $50 million, will be distributed in a similar manner...
Though the Baby Boomers have spurred the growth of the black middle class, there are as well an increasing number of unwed black mothers in the Baby Boom generation who must support their children on a pittance. "When you talk about two-parent families," says Frank Levy of the Urban Institute, "blacks have made gains in closing the gap on whites." The median income for a black family headed by a married couple ages 35 to 44 was $29,908 in 1983, not far behind the $35,600 average for whites. But the 43% of black households headed by women...