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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...parents to provide their own," she says. And without day care, parents can't look for work or go to school. Cloth diapers don't help, because low-income families tend not to have washing machines or cars to get to the Laundromat. Moreover, she knew that babies who sit longer in their own waste get more diaper rashes and cry more. And she'd read the studies showing that more crying leads to more physical abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting a Diaper Bank | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Diamond is an esteemed neuroanatomist and one of the most admired professors at the University of California, Berkeley. It would be a privilege for anyone to sit in on her lectures. And, in fact, anyone can. Videos of her popular course are available free online, part of a growing movement by academic institutions worldwide to open their once exclusive halls to all who want to peek inside. Whether you'd like to learn algebra from a mathematician at MIT, watch how to make crawfish étouffée from an instructor at the Culinary Institute of America or study blues guitar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Logging On to the Ivy League | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...know by now the problems with major-network TV. There are too many other channels, other media, other diversions. The audience has been sliced and diced into confetti, and it is no longer possible for a new drama to get tens of millions of viewers to sit down on their couches and watch the same thing at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mentalist: CBS's Psychic Friend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...interview with The Crimson this weekend. “At the beginning of class, I would walk into my classes and was surprisingly greeted by a professor at the front of the room,†Arbuthnott said. “Once class started, however, the professor would sit down with the students and start informing the class about the strike,†he added. Once universities began closing their doors in France, many students quickly grew nervous about jeopardizing their academic standing and took immediate steps to counteract this possibility, Arbuthnott said. “At first...

Author: By Marc G. Steinberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: French Strikes Hit Close to Home | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Berg: 1. Annenberg Hall, the cathedral-esque structure (complete with stained glass) that serves as the dining hall for all first-years. 2. Where food goes to die. 3. Prefrosh. Where you sit and stare in awe at the chandeliers, gushing to other prefrosh about how you feel like Hogwarts students...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Harvardisms, Prefrosh Weekend Edition | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

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