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...bill that carves Omaha?s school district into three-a black district, a white district, and a Hispanic district. He thinks this will protect black schools from being cheated of their fair share of bond proceeds. He also says black families should decide what black children are being taught. They think they?ll be better off taking care their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Americans Suffering Diversity Fatigue? | 5/31/2006 | See Source »

MANY ADOPTED TEENS ARE TORN BY SPLIT allegiances to their birth and adoptive families. A tall, bubbly 16-year-old who plays drums and dreams of being a pilot or neurophysicist, Lamar Stapleton says being in foster care "taught me a lot about life. When push comes to shove, you've only got yourself and your family." And by family, he means his birth family. In November, Lamar and his younger sister Nasia, 14, were adopted by Shirley Williams, 61, a single parent in New York City's Harlem who had already raised five of her own children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Foster Teens Find a Home | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

When i was a child growing up after World War II, we were taught that, however awful the war may have been, it stimulated the development of new technologies, like radar and jet engines, and led to the mass adoption of many new products. You're holding one in your hands right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Editor | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

Gore says he has found "a different kind of campaign," one that plays more to his strengths than electoral politics did. The 2000 defeat taught him lessons about his talents and his limits. When he was considering four years ago whether to make a 2004 presidential bid, Gore told TIME, "I'm better at looking over the next ridge to try to anticipate what we're going to see there. What I don't think I'm good at is the back-slapping and political compromise that are part of being a candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights, Camera, Al Gore! | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...delivers his piquant comedy on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher, which premiered last week and streams on Amazon.com The satirist talked with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about his potential as a political candidate, the network news and what his parents taught him about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bill Maher | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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