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...work on a bomber assembly line. When her daughter had a baby and dropped out of college at 18, Dunham got a job at a bank, becoming the family's primary breadwinner. When Obama's mother returned to Indonesia, a teenage Obama wanted to stay in Hawaii; Dunham made space for him in her small Honolulu apartment. She was "the one who taught me about hard work," Obama said, accepting his party's nomination in August. "She poured everything she had into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madelyn Dunham | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...month. Naturally, Allston residents are concerned about the potential for Harvard to “take over” the area and close itself off to the community. Harvard has responded to that with a plan consisting of an open commons area that would serve as a public green space between the campus and town, several other parks, and a comprehensive system of walking and bike paths for residents. As much as this will beautify the area for the residents of Allston and make the new area much more navigable, it will do the same things for the Harvard community...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Two-Way Street | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...seem so groundless. Now Chinese consumers are asking why the government can't seem to get control of a problem like toxic foods, or even a specific contaminant like melamine that has now become painfully common. "Everyone has asked why this country that can send an astronaut into space and have the most successful Olympic Games cannot provide safe milk to its own children," says Dali Yang, director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. While Yang acknowledges that ethical failures in the Chinese dairy industry led to the current crisis, the ultimate blame still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Melamine Woes Likely to Get Worse | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...turns out that running a polling place in the U.S. involves about the same level of complexity as launching a space shuttle. It doesn't have to be this hard, but it is. Polling places are staffed by amateurs and funded and organized by local officials, most of whom are not all that scientific in their planning - and who have limited options to improve their efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of What Makes Your Polling Place Work — Or Not | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...their downtown offices in Phoenix are any clue, Democrats are certainly outworking their GOP counterparts. I visited the Democratic headquarters Sunday evening and found four dozen or so volunteers busily making calls inside; a few were even outside on their cell phones for lack of space. The Republican headquarters, by contrast, was empty and locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Arizona Is Not a Lock for McCain | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

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