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...Byzantine drop-off rules at Goodwill or the Salvation Army can stymie would-be donors who want to clear their closets of ill-fitting, outdated or frayed clothes. Donation times are often limited to just a few hours on designated weekdays. But there is an alternative: the brightly colored drop boxes that are popping up outside grocery stores and gas stations in nine major cities across the country. The 1,400-odd USAgain bins collected 8 million lbs. of clothing last year. LET YOUR USED CLOTHES GET A SECOND LIFE, reads a sign on these checkered boxes, all of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Business in a Box | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...from 6.1% in May, bringing to 2 million the total job losses since Bush became President. The news could pose a problem for him in the 2004 election; if things don't improve, he could be the first President since Herbert Hoover in 1932 to record a drop in the number of working Americans during his whole term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/6/2003 | See Source »

...Jobson,” Adam told me. “If anyone had seen me drop military gaze, I would have been in a world of pain for weeks...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, | Title: We Want You in the Navy, Too | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

According to Christopher Queen, dean of students for the Division of Continuing Education, SARS-related concerns as well as post-Sept. 11 visa difficulties contributed significantly to the drop in numbers...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer School Ranks Down by 300 This Year | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

...against the undergraduate plan. Some other large state universities had used point systems like the University of Michigan's undergraduate program, but shifted away from them since Michigan was sued in 1997. With the Court specifically declaring these point systems illegal, any college that still has one will immediately drop it. The decision will force Michigan and other state universities to have larger admissions staffs to read each application individually, which the Court advocates in its opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Winner Is . . . Affirmative Action | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

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