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...rare, and drinking water collects in plastic buckets under rain gutters. Empty Coke cans and cigarette packets litter the streets. In the ramshackle town hall, a sign reads, CITY OF SHISHMAREF BINGO WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING ANY MORE PERSONAL CHECKS. Another warns against siphoning gasoline from the village fire truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VANISHING ALASKA | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...Grade 3, Davin wasn't invited to join the school's talented-and-gifted (TAG) program until the following year--an oversight Knipfer attributes to the family's social standing in a small town. Laura runs a day-care service in their home, and her husband Russell is a truck driver. "We're low income, and I'm not in the local political game," she says. (School superintendent Jody Gray denies this and says Davin was enrolled in TAG as soon as the school recognized his gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: SAVING THE SMART KIDS | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

Anderson said he saw at least two Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) cars, an unmarked police car, CPD cars and a police truck arrive on the scene moments later. An ambulance also arrived...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shots Fired Near Leverett | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...else's pain than express his own. "If you sing a song and tell somebody how you feel, that's good," says McGraw. "But if you can tell somebody how they feel, that's great. If you can get some old boy driving down the road in his pickup truck to kick the radio and go, 'F___! How did he know?' then you're really doing your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Clinton Of Country | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...into the driver's seat at Mercedes in October is Cordes, 53, a 28-year veteran of parent DaimlerChrysler. The luxury-car maker has been plagued by slipping sales and quality ratings; Cordes' job is to get it back on track. He most recently ran the parent company's truck division, where he managed a remarkable turnaround by cutting costs and emphasizing profitability. Following a 2002 loss, the unit turned a $1 billion operating profit last year. With that sort of record, Cordes just might find himself as Daimler's next chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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