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...institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency’s directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: ...Who Help Themselves | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...providing antidepressants for sale over the counter,] you're inadvertently promoting a particular path of dealing with these issues - an easier and cheaper path - so of course people will choose it. How much of a choice is it when you say, "Well you could spend thousands of dollars getting proper treatment, or you could pay $5 on antidepressants. It's up to you!" Some people won't [take that path], but a lot of people will. Then you also risk undermining or taking valuable resources away from more intensive treatment that involves therapy or communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prozac Over the Counter? | 5/26/2008 | See Source »

...through the 4,700-plus sites for those that had visitors that matched my demographics. Having just reached 42, I wasn't surprised that MySpace and Facebook weren?t on top of the list for my age group; after all, I still haven't figured out the purpose or proper response to a Super Poke. Top of the list for a 34-44 year-old living in the suburbs with similar interests to me is the grown-up social network called gather.com, which is sort of like a slow-going, pared-down Facebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scouting Micro Social Networks | 5/20/2008 | See Source »

...send a political message. As long as Proposition 22 does not violate constitutional rights, the Court has no choice but to uphold it, no matter what message that sends. Achieving these political goals, and changing the definition of marriage to reflect a new consensus, is not the proper role of the judiciary...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: Unwritten Law | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a hunger strike to protest the lack of proper shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Migrants on Hunger Strike | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

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