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...family was an important common bond between Mexican and American culture. But the fate of his immigration reform now rests on whether he can partner with Republican Senator John Kyl to persuade Congress to replace the U.S.'s decades-old system of family-based immigration in favor of a skill-based program. At least two-thirds of the more than 30 million legal immigrants to the U.S. since 1965 have been allowed in because they were related to legal residents; Kyl wants a system that chooses high- and low-skilled workers according to economic demand and limits those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values and Immigration | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...between the most esoteric realms of science and the practical challenges of building a program from the ground up,” Faust said in a statement on Friday. “Barbara has proved herself to be a leader, a manager, and an entrepreneur of particular vision and skill...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Grosz To Lead Radcliffe Institute | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

...year's World Cyber Games in Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky pastime, and the sport has a substantial following, even fan clubs, which ensure celebrity status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Playing Video Games Is a Life | 5/14/2007 | See Source »

...drive, and ability to move comfortably between the most esoteric realms of science and the practical challenges of building a program from the ground up," Faust said in a statement on Friday. "Barbara has proved herself to be a leader, a manager, and an entrepreneur of particular vision and skill...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Grosz Tapped as Radcliffe Dean | 5/12/2007 | See Source »

Anyone familiar with today's Paris will make a happy discovery at the Bibliothèque Nationale: a surprising number of the streets and buildings Atget photographed have survived mostly intact. Atget's role in protecting them is difficult to quantify - but impossible to deny. The skill and passion he brought to that quest make "Atget, a Retrospective" not just a nostalgic trip back to a lost era, but also a living road map to one of the most romantic cities in the world. It is a city, as Atget realized, that cries out to be photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rue Awakening | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

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