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Never on a Sunday? Not anymore in France, where the upper house of Parliament ended a bruising, two-year political battle by giving final approval to a law that will allow some stores to trade on the seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many French Dislike Law Increasing Sunday Shopping | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

What portion of inmates do you think this will affect? That's hard to say, but I'm sure there's a lot of them who have wealth above $40,000. Whatever little bit each inmate can help to pay in those upper income levels is going to take the burden collectively, and I think very largely, off the taxpayers. And we certainly need that in New York State right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Prisoners Pay — Literally | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...special session to act on measures such as concealed-weapons laws and the creation of organized-crime and anticorruption courts. Activists like Alfonso Abril, 24, of the civic group ProReforma, want to revise Guatemala's sclerotic constitution to modernize lawmaking and codify individual rights. "I'm from the upper class," says Abril, "but I know we can't keep living in a country like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Guatemala, Chasing Away the Ghost of Alvarado | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...bachelor's" degree holders, which is one reason Obama is working on a plan to help every American get at least one year of college or vocational training. "If you're going to increase the population that has some college, it isn't going to be among upper-middle-class white people," says Thomas Bailey, director of Columbia University's Community College Research Center. "Community colleges will have to play a central role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Community Colleges Save the U.S. Economy? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...They’re not necessarily the best team ever,” said Stephen Moulton, a fan decked out in Padres gear, sitting in the upper deck. “But yeah definitely San Diego pride...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE PART 1: Yo Soy Tu Padre | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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