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A stamp can?t change the world, but it can remind us in a small way about the greatness of America. And by honoring these two men - liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican - it can remind us that we have more in common than not. Citizens can petition the Postal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Way to Stamp Out the Red/Blue Divide | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

Rosemary morley doesn't deny that Toowoomba's water problem is grim. Like everyone else in this parched southeast Queensland city, she's been living with tough water restrictions for nearly three years. But the 60-year-old former president of the local chamber of commerce is sure she's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not a Drop to Drink? | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

But Cereality's attempt to crack some Grape-Nuts may have backfired with at least one part of its most loyal customer base--college students. A group from the University of Florida launched a "Cereal Solidarity" campaign last summer on the website freeculture.org criticizing Cereality for bullying rival restaurants with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: In a Real Crunch | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

High schoolers, predictably, tend to agree with that view. "Give students an opportunity to police themselves," says Nathan Graf, 18, a senior at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., who got two-thirds of his classmates to sign a petition against a new policy of random Breathalyzer tests at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barred from the Prom | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

In the last few years, state family courts have tried to accommodate the stepparents and stepchildren who appear before them, without granting so much that it subtracts rights from a biological parent. In Colorado a stepparent can now sign the form that allows a minor to apply for a driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Stepparents Real Parents? | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

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