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...husband, a four-year period of needles and frozen sperm, a lower chance you’ll be able to chase your grandchildren around the yard, and much lower chance you’ll be alive to attend their graduations. Do I see the paint peeling on this white picket fence dream...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Now Comes the Bride | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

White and black South Africans united last week - on the picket lines. Gold miners in the world's biggest bullion producer went on a four-day strike demanding higher wages and better living conditions. The stoppage, the first industry-wide action for almost two decades, ended after employers agreed to a 6-7% pay increase. But low pay is not the only issue. Many mineworkers still live in single-sex hostels, symbols of exploitation under the old apartheid regime. The gold-mining companies point out that they have improved accommodation considerably; still, "the problem is to rebuild an entire housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Striking Gold | 8/14/2005 | See Source »

Married for the first time, in May at age 39, Chrystyna Garrigan, a skin-care consultant from Montclair, N.J., considers herself a pretty modern woman. Smart, independent and cheerfully unconventional, she did not spend her childhood planning the perfect wedding or dreaming of white picket fences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Mrs., Not Ms. | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...thought with the strike, you might cross a picket line and get some ice time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Tim Robbins | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

Reynolds said that a majority of Yale’s teaching assistants “respected the picket lines”—meaning they either taught off campus or went on strike...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grad Student Strikes End Without Result | 4/26/2005 | See Source »

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