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Going into the final event of the invitational, the 4x400 relay, the Crimson was ahead by a slim two points...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men and Women Earn Battle of Beantown Titles | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Students with top scores on that exam will receive certificates - but chances for long-term benefits are slim. As it turns out, there is little evidence that traditional efforts to boost financial know-how help students make better decisions outside the classroom. Even as the financial-literacy movement has gained steam over the past decade, scores have been falling on tests that measure how savvy students are about things such as budgeting, credit cards, insurance and investments. A 2008 survey of college students conducted for the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy found that students who'd had a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Teach Kids About Money | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...into the dingy flat, which bore the medicinal odor of crack. As the churchmen escorted Elizabeth to retrieve her clothes, I smiled and feigned ignorance of their intent. While Lombard and Elizabeth retrieved her possessions, I spoke to Jude alone. Short and muscular, with dark, patchy skin, Jude wore slim, brown corduroys and white Crocs with green dollar signs. Jude explained that he lured girls from Johannesburg, where many survive by "picking through garbage." Our conversation turned to soccer. I asked him if he was looking forward to the World Cup. "Yeah, this is good! Us people are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

Marx said that PIH has about 4,000 people working in Haiti, including 100 doctors and 600 nurses. But the figures seem hopelessly slim when situated beside the several million in need and the tens of thousands now dead...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Lends Helping Hands to a Shaken Country | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...uncensored search engine in China. "We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China," wrote Drummond, the Google executive, on the Google blog. Given the company's tempestuous four years in China, the odds the authorities will now compromise are slim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Ends Policy of Self-Censorship in China | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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