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...relationship - and especially an LDR - people can't expect their partners to be their caretakers. If you make a life-changing decision like moving to another city to be together, try to establish your own support network as soon as possible, whether that means making a few friends of your own, finding a job or joining a group that shares your interests. And remember that you each need to maintain your independence and understand that your lives don't revolve solely around each other. Love, companionship and sex should be a given, but you also need to make time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making It Work Long-Distance | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...when I started making small loans to Third World entrepreneurs through the nonprofit website kiva.org I felt as though I wasn't doing enough. That's why a few weeks after I sent $25 to a baker in Nicaragua, I decided I needed to stop being a silent partner and start calling him all the time with my ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cupcake Kings Go Global, With a Little Help From Joel | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...banana. From my experiences in cupcake-eating, I told him he might want to start off with red velvet and chai. "Those flavors would be new to Nicaragua," he said, "and therefore there'd be a great demand for them." I could not have imagined finding a business partner who thinks so much like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cupcake Kings Go Global, With a Little Help From Joel | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...realized that Freddy y Joel's Muy Cupcakery should co-brand and partner with a large baking conglomerate, since co-brand and partner with are terms I've heard my friends in Silicon Valley use. So I contacted Candace Nelson, who co-owns Sprinkles Cupcakes, a chain that Oprah Winfrey says is one of her favorites. When I mentioned the opportunity to take her five-store chain global, she became very interested. "Once we're up to the top 20 cities in America, we'd think about going to Mexico," she said. "We'd love some market research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cupcake Kings Go Global, With a Little Help From Joel | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Papua province in Indonesia, a young woman was diagnosed with HIV. Upon learning that she had been infected by her boyfriend, according to a local doctor, the woman decided to take "revenge." She began sleeping with as many men as possible, asking only for a copy of her partner's identity card. Shortly before she died, she told her family to look under her pillow, where they found 50 photocopies - evidence of her self-proclaimed campaign to infect as many men as possible before dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papua Proposal: A Microchip to Track the HIV-Positive | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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