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...TIME: So, the thing is: there's a never-ending war in the Middle East. There's starvation and strife in Africa. There's authoritarian rule in Asia, corruption in South America, and a really poor crop of American Idol contestants this season. Why should women want to rule the world...
Will Caltech ever shine on the court? Dow is a committed coach. He just wishes the administration would show more support for sports. "The school strives for excellence in so many endeavors," he says. "Why should this other experience be so poor?" At other Division III schools, coaches and admissions officers often work together to identify potential players and set aside spots for a few who may not qualify academically for the school. Dow says he has a "nonexistent" relationship with the Caltech admissions office. "People here aren't comfortable with any guarantees," says Caltech admissions director Rick Bischoff...
...While in Britain the poor starved, the colonists of Van Diemen's Land enjoyed plenty - kangaroo, oysters, wombat, echidna "stuffed with sage and onion." There was no money for prisons, so many convicts "simply wandered off to live a life of quiet freedom in the well-watered, game-rich bush". With absorbing detail and first-hand accounts, Boyce shows that while life in this new world was hard, it was, for many, better than what they'd left behind. One convict wrote of being "unaccountably indifferent" to the notion of returning home. Hunters, bushrangers and soldiers wore kangaroo and possum...
...Senate. "She is the best candidate for President I've ever had a chance to support," Clinton says. A list follows: She supported Senegalese women victimized by genital multilation; she inspired Cambodian women to work for education for their daughters; she worked on health care programs for poor American kids; registered voters in dusty Texas towns; toiled for peace in Ireland... "All her life she has been an agent for change," Clinton says...
...most of its history, Liechtenstein was far from rich. In 1868, it had to disband its 80-man army to cut costs. "Maybe it was so easy for us to keep our independence because we were so poor that nobody wanted us," says Josef Beck, head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He says prosperity has come to the principality only over the last 20 or 30 years, and it "has a lot to do with the banks...