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...Even when parents return, the sting of abandonment can linger. In a dimly lit living room in suburban Manila, Rebecca Lucero watches her teenage son, John Patrick, bolt past and pound up the stairs. Lucero says he is a good kid. He does well in school. But, she adds, "I feel uncomfortable around him." She gave birth to her son, now 18, when she was working at a Holiday Inn in Abu Dhabi. She took him back to Manila to live with her mother when he was 3 months old, and left him there for 11 years while she continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motherless Generation | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Theodore Roosevelt built a rectangular room on the ground floor of the new West Wing, replacing offices on the second floor of the White House. William Howard Taft made it into an oval in honor of a symbolic feature of George Washington's Philadelphia residence: a room with a bowed end where the first President would stand surrounded by a circle of guests, allowing him to democratically greet each visitor from the same distance. The office was moved to its current location in the southeast corner of the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History Of: The Oval Office | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...spectacular water table, with balls and hoses and a Medusa's head of tubes. Every school day includes half an hour of "glow time," in which the shades are pulled, the black lights go on, and heretofore inconspicuous paintings and sculptures come to life. And there's the Wonder Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Blue Man Group's School, Kids Rule | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...laptops, McCain-Palin buttons, and cold pizza, hoping for a major upset. The sounds of cheering Obama fans at the Election Night Party in the adjacent JFK Jr. Forum are only somewhat muted. But the prospects of an upset grow dimmer as the projection screen in front of the room reports one blue state after another. For Colin J. Motley ’10, President of the HRC, the tendency of exit polls to exaggerate offers some hope, but overall things are “not too positive.” The loss of New Hampshire to the Republicans stings...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sitting Out Election Night at Harvard | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...night, then you probably heard the music blasting from Hillel as dozens of students got together to celebrate Harvard’s bar mitzvah in style. On the dance floor, a disco ball colored the walls as a DJ blasted everything from Miley to T-Pain, transforming the worship room into a shrine to the party gods...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The End of John's Awkward Years | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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