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...hotline to rescue unwanted babies, who has helped mothers ranging in age from their teens to their 30s. "It's a tumor or an object or a problem." Spreading the word about the existence of surrender laws has been hard. The details of California's are supposed to be taught in sex-ed classes and publicly advertised. But with no state funding available, it's up to local governments and private foundations like Magnusen's to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Mother Chooses to Give Away a Newborn | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...argues, convincingly, that some of the spots in our Harvard class are for sale—at a precious price. But, inadvertently, he also shows that legacy preference contributes to Harvard’s largess—and, hence, to our own well-being. Step into a class taught by Sandel or Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and you too are a beneficiary...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Look Who’s Getting a Leg Up from Legacy | 9/21/2006 | See Source »

...little humility. The people at Amaranth were the best and the brightest. They were graduates of the best colleges. They took fairly rigorous math and economics courses, where they probably learned Portfolio Theory and Black-Scholes option pricing models. And to be fair, most of what was taught worked most of the time. But then a kind of lethal hubris began to settle in. They began to believe that the right models and right formulas would allow them to master the markets. It all became play money in a great game. Had the Amaranth-kids ventured beyond this bubble, they...

Author: By Adam J. Katz, | Title: When Genius Fails Again | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the conclave of April 2005). But more to the point, the Pope has long trusted his own writing touch for major documents and speeches - and no one was going to edit his grand return to the University of Regensburg where he'd taught theology in the 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Pope's PR Machinery Failed | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

Music Rising has given instruments and aid to about 2,000 musicians, but it's barely a start. New Orleans is like one giant music academy; all of those neighborhoods fostered multigenerational music tuition. Grandfathers taught grandchildren in churches, homes, schools. People were passing on knowledge everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for The Edge | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

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