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...Tagalog and English last year; she even managed to establish a charity that has donated thousands of books and used computers to rural schools around her home town of Ballesteros. Starting from scratch, on her days off, she mustered funds and volunteers from across Hong Kong's social strata. "At first," she remembers, "people would ask me, 'What are you doing, thinking you're so big? You're just a helper.' But I kept faith and I keep trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unite, a Worker of the World | 6/11/2007 | See Source »

...Laurentiis and Goin occupy completely different strata in the food world, but both are accomplished cooks. De Laurentiis, 35, is the host of a Food Network program, Everyday Italian, that has become so successful that it airs 14 times a week. She just finished a 34-city tour for Giada's Family Dinners, her second best seller in two years. On the day I joined the tour in the Bay Area last month, more than 1,200 people waited in line for up to three hours to see her. I heard half a dozen young women tell De Laurentiis they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2 Thin Chefs | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

Getting into the Groove Stew Design Workshop's Strata chair, crafted from 38 unique pieces of laminated plywood and inspired by geologic formations in the American Southwest, $4,400 (stewdesignworkshop.com) Opposite page: Peonies painting by Stephen Courbois made from pieces of old wallpaper, price upon request (518-321-6517); Esque's Water Drop jug, handmade from recycled glass and processed using wind power, $368 (branchhome.com) Chista's Tamarin slice table by Alon Langotsky, $2,600 (chista.net...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Modernism | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...optimistic about Harvard’s blogging community. “Blogs represent a kind of learning that can be done in public and across communities,” he says. Palfrey believes that sites like CampusTap are using technology to break down the “social strata and different institutional barriers that are erected here...

Author: By Vivien G.H. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Our Very Own Blogosphere | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

Women who marry later, says Krishnan, have more control over their sexual health and are far less likely to contract HIV. She believes that better access to higher education and higher-strata jobs will not only raise women's status but protect their health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epidemiology: Forging the Future: Sex, Money and Power In India | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

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