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Pawnshops Thrive, Draw Scrutiny over Interest Rates
With banks reluctant to loosen purse strings and credit-card companies aggressively slashing credit lines, a growing number of consumers are turning to the once murky world of pawnshops for quick cash. “Loans are up 20% to 25%,” estimates David Crume, president of the National Pawnbrokers Association
Spain Seeks Justice for Jesuits Killed in El Salvador’s Civil War
Carlos Martn Bar believes that his brother Ignacio knew he was about to be killed. The night before his murder Nov.
How We Spend Our Leisure Time
Special Report: America By the Numbers Who We Are •A Demographic Snapshot of America The country continues to grow, with help from immigration •The Very Unnatural Naturalization Process A TIME editor describes what it’s like to become an American citizen •America’s Long Debate on Immigration A historian describes how our attitudes have and haven’t changed Where We Live •A Geographic Breakdown Compared with other developing countries, the nation is still just a vast prairie What We Believe • How We View God Your view of God may shape your morals and politics • Behind America’s Different Perceptions of God Researchers who divided religion into four view of God say that’s a better indicator than denomination • Denomination Nation See where the largest religious groups live across the U.S. How We Live • America’s Leisure Time We have more free time than we did 40 years ago, but it doesn’t feel that way What We Buy • How We Spend and Why Experts say that as our population increases, we’re going to feel an even greater pressure to spend If life seems more rushed than ever, you might be surprised to learn that we Americans don’t have less leisure time than we did 40 years ago.
Box Office Weekend: ‘Thor’ is Epic, ‘Fast Five’ Stays Strong, but Mel Gibson’s ‘The Beaver’ is Nowhere To Be Found
Thunder of the low, distant variety shook movie theaters, and lightning bolts pulsed out from 3-D screens, as Thor earned $66 million at North American theaters to win the year’s first full May weekend, according to early studio estimates.
The 25th Hour
The day Osama bin Laden died, his name was paired once again with the agent whose illustrious career he helped make possible.
The Five Faces of Barack Obama
If Barack Obama had not chosen a life in politics, he might have made a fine psychotherapist.
Report: 1 in 50 Kids in America Is Homeless
Even before the financial and home foreclosure crisis hit full stride, the number of homeless children in America had reached an alarming level. The National Center on Family Homelessness released a report today that estimates that one in every 50 American children was homeless between 2005 and 2006
What Would Ayn Rand Have Done?
A great day for the United States of America?
CHE GUEVARA: The Guerrilla
By the time Ernesto Guevara, known to us as Che, was murdered in the jungles of Bolivia in October 1967, he was already a legend to my generation, not only in Latin America but also around the world. Like so many epics, the story of the obscure Argentine doctor who abandoned his profession and his native land to pursue the emancipation of the poor of the earth began with a voyage