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...itself. The country's punk and alternative-rock scenes have been gushed over by excited commentators, eager to cite them as evidence of China's changing mores. But they are staid in comparison to that created by a new breed of artists, who eschew conventional guitar-based music in favor of baffling electronica, extreme noise and found sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come On Feel the Noise | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Eventually, RealtyTrac changed its methodology in favor of counting unique houses--Williams says the new numbers are within 5% of those the state collects internally--but in the long term, the dustup did little to reduce the use of the company's data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Hunters | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Virginia. The company winds up having sway over the very concept of foreclosure rates. Early on, members of New York's task force thought the best way to look at foreclosure rates would be as a percentage of households with a mortgage. That was finally tossed in favor of RealtyTrac's measure of foreclosures as a percentage of all households. If the state reported its preferred figure, it would seem to have a greater problem than other states when people compared the two sets of data. "RealtyTrac is now setting the standard by which this information gets reported," says Neiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Hunters | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...glad they’ve both come out in favor of how important ROTC is and stated positively its rightful place on college campuses,” he said...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: News Analysis: Obama Win Could End ROTC Battle | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...always correlate with nutritional value, and the notion that the cards were supposed to be some guide-at-a-glance for healthy choices was inherently problematic. In a way, instead of demystifying Chickwiches and ranger cookies, the cards took attention away from the food itself in favor of abstract numbers; the overwhelming distress the cards caused for people with serious eating concerns far outweighed the “benefit...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Death of Calorie Cards: Love it | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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