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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...construct) one of the first synthesizers. He devised the first eight-track tape recording system, which would not become generally accepted until 15 years later, when the Beatles made their White Album. And he invented the Gibson Les Paul, an instrument used in various models by Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and loads of other Guitar-zans. (See TIME's top 100 albums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...cratering of their numbers is almost surely the result of more than two years of campaign-trail rhetoric and cable fulminations on the issue of illegal Mexican immigrants. "I can't say for certain how the data would have been different in the pre-Lou Dobbs or Glenn Beck era," says Timberlake, "but it seems we're seeing the reflection of the general debate." (See pictures of the fence between the U.S. and Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stereotypes Persist Even Where Immigrants Don't | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

...myself with, a number of whom are capable of stepping in as chief of police." The word on the street is that his three assitant chiefs, Jim McDonnell, Sharon Papa and Earl Paysinger may be in the running along with the well-regarded head of detectives, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

...Beck, Glenn • fans of are urged by not to vent their frustrations by going out and killing a bunch of people because it would be very bad for Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...committed to wearing runner-soled shoes, watching The Simpsons and making back-of-the-classroom wisecracks on Twitter. But the rampant juvenillization of national life does echo and reinforce unfortunate habits of mind. What do the naughtiest children do? They scream and cry and tell outrageous fibs, like Glenn Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boomers: Older and Maybe, Finally Wiser | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

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