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...this happen? Green Day's long maturation was due largely to its initial burst of success. Dookie attracted a broad audience of suburban teens for whom lines like "I'm not growing up, I'm just burning out" became mini-mantras. While the band occasionally showed a hint of depth (2000's Warning had more diverse instrumentation and was vaguely political), its popularity gave it no incentive to evolve. But over the past few years, younger outfits like Good Charlotte and Sum 41--who admit a musical debt to Green Day--began siphoning off the aimless-adolescent market...
...decade ago, Whitefield, a remote suburb of Bangalore, made headlines on those rare occasions when gangs of armed bandits burst into homes at night. Today that former stretch of farmland and scattered houses is disturbed only by giant cranes, cement mixers and trucks piled up with white sand. Buildings of glass and steel are rising all over, as Bangalore's fast-expanding outsourcing industry radiates far beyond the city. Perhaps the most impressive spot in Whitefield is the campus of SAP Labs. The main building, with its comfortable sofas and a sunny atrium, is a sumptuous workplace by Indian standards...
...pipe burst left the basement of Thayer under an inch of water, dampening the offices of several student organizations, including HCS and the International Review Council...
...Stolk-Riley said he was told Richard L. Picott, the Yard Operations manager for freshman dorms and Dudley House, that the pipe burst was caused by an open window in an IRC office. But van Stolk-Riley disagreed saying that the window in question had not been open since mid-December. “It’s no big deal,” said van Stolk-Riley. “We just don’t want to be blamed for having the windows open if we didn?...
Hopkins received a similar burst of press attention in 1999 after a committee she chaired on the status of female faculty at MIT released a report demonstrating discrimination against female senior faculty members...