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...reformers intended. She did give up welfare last year, but not to work. Instead she lives with her mother. She takes the occasional odd job and gets help from her children's father, who kicks in support "whenever he can." Health care is tough--"I have a pile of bills this high," she says--but she found a hospital emergency room that treats her kids even when she can't pay. Wells succeeded in bucking a major national trend. She didn't join the millions of Americans who have left the welfare rolls in recent years for gainful employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Still Be On Welfare? | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Last week, as a growing pile of news clippings gave shape to the profile of a monster, the Stayner family, reeling under the dust-bowl version of the Kennedy curse, was adamant about one thing. "And please quote me on this," said a relative. "The thing with Steven is not at all related to any of this with Cary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shade Of His Brother | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Throw a few more cancer cures on the pile. Researchers from UCLA and Maryland-based Human Genome Sciences have discovered two new angiogenesis inhibitors -- proteins that can starve a tumor by choking off its blood supply -- called METH-1 and METH-2 that may be 50 times more effective than anything currently being studied. TIME science writer Christine Gorman says that while success in the lab is all well and good, she warns that advances like these have a long history of turning into dead ends. "Angiogenesis inhibitors have a 20-year history of disappointment when they?re tried outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Lab, Two Ways to Take on Cancer | 8/5/1999 | See Source »

...good and evil--between short-term greed and ignorance and a long-term vision of building communities that are dignified and enriching and that meet the obligations to future generations. There are two visions of America. One is that this is just a place where you make a pile for yourself and keep moving. And the other is that you put down roots and build communities that are examples to the rest of humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Water: Let Rivers Run Deep | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...store shut down in April to add new equipment and refurbish its serving area, but began to pile up debts after owners became wrapped up in a management dispute, delaying reopening until more than two months after the scheduled date...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arrow Street Crepe Restaurant Reopens | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

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