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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...said single is the result of a similarly straightforward process, with the added philosophy of “why not?”—but these hypotheticals become so over the top that the video becomes entertaining through sheer effort. Why not stick the band on a float, followed by a bunch of people in skeleton makeup, and have them march down a post-apocalyptic road? Why not put a damn blimp above it with a sign that reads “The Black Parade,” just in case there’s any confusion...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PopScreen: My Chemical Romance, "Welcome to the Black Parade" | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...place where people actually care about learning, which is why every year the city sends us off to university with a “Greatest Minds” parade. We know the mayor meant well, but it took us over seventeen days to get out here on that fucking float. Back at Harvard, the transition was rocky as usual as we endured another Hell Week, aka shopping period. We thought this one might be different, but we didn’t take it as a good sign when we found out that Derek C. Bok would not be teaching...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, S | Title: Bell Lap 2: Welcome Back, Mammalians | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

...only half of Jupiter’s, rendering it very light for its size, or as Noyes called it, a “big, fluffy planet.” “If you drop Jupiter into a huge bowl of water, it would sink. This planet would float high, like a beach ball,” Noyes said, explaining that HAT-P-1 has a density that is a quarter that of water’s. It’s not the only low-density, large-mass planet—in fact, HD 209458b was detected in 2000?...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Fluffy Planet’ Spotted | 9/19/2006 | See Source »

...large classes, come exam or paper time, many students rely on study guides that float around over e-mail. Others form their own study groups and assign one another small clusters of readings to summarize, so many students will only have touched a few sections in their individually-owned, mint condition, comprehensive class notes...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don’t Get Caught By Expensive Textbooks | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...eater. A big one can eat a frog in five hours: it sucks the juices in and out." He points to a cluster of brown pods. "They're egg sacs. Each one might have 500 tiny spiders in it. They crawl out, let out a bit of silk and float away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask the Arachnophile | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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