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When gangsta rapper The Game released his debut album, “The Documentary,” in early 2005, he was flying high—and not just because of all the chronic he was smoking. With the legendary Dr. Dre as executive producer and 50 Cent and Eminem as featured guests, The Game knew “The Documentary” would go platinum. It sold five million copies worldwide...
...soundscape. Alas, next comes Scott Storch. He produces the same “Still D.R.E.”-derived track three or four times on the album. The result—exemplified on “Let’s Ride”—is a 50 Cent-influenced song-rap. The B-grade Dre beats just ooze of lameness, and so does Game, with his mind-numbingly repetitive wannabe lyrics. Some of the more egregious fanboy examples are worth noting for their sheer insufferability. There’s the word-for-word copying of the post-track...
...reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue of the three-cent stamp commemorating Teddy's Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill, which today is worth about what it was then...
...Economic Research, warns that Germany's solar industry will falter if current policy changes: "The major point of criticism says that [solar] is too far from being competitive. It's a political question of whether the country wants to keep subsidizing it." Utility companies must now pay 8.36 euro cents per kW-h to windmill owners; for solar, the price is far higher, at 51 euro cents. The utilities charge about 20 euro cents per kW-h, with consumers paying an extra 0.5 euro-cent charge per kW-h to fund green energy...
...next time students are jamming to 50 Cent on their MP3 players, they might want to refrain from blasting the song at full volume...