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...arrival in Miami he recalls being mystified by toothpaste, apples and English. But he soon adapted. In high school he won a TIME-sponsored art scholarship by creating a hypothetical cover for the magazine. Later, another stipend enabled him to attend Brooklyn's Pratt Institute, where he majored in painting. Graduated just two months ago, Rodriguez designs our Letters, Contents and To Our Readers pages (including this one). TIME has also used his illustrations...
...edge of Ritan Park in Beijing. Chen (not his real name) is one of China's new entrepreneurs -- but hardly by choice. A year ago, he was laid off by the state-owned leather factory where he worked for more than 25 years and was given a stipend of $10.50 a month, less than half his previous salary and not enough to support / his family of four. The leather plant is half shut and bankrupt because it cannot find a market for its shoddy goods...
...learn a role or to do spring cleaning on one they already know. But for an international star, going there is time consuming and economically disastrous. The commitment is to at least five weeks of rehearsals and about 14 performances, with a no-play-no-pay proviso and no stipend for rehearsal time. The top salary is $1,800 per performance; international stars earn as much as $12,000 a night. So Sussex gets them early or not at all: Pavarotti, Frederica von Stade and Kathleen Battle all passed through, but Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Cecilia Bartoli slipped...
Students in Americorps will perform service inexchange for a minimum wage stipend and for moneythat must be used to pay for their education. Kingsaid...
Since very few fellows have taken advantage ofthis benefit in recent years, the society haseliminated the housing option and boosted theannual stipend to its present level...