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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Duggar got pregnant with their 18th child, they announced it on the Today show, and their reality-TV show launched that fall. When Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth to octuplets on Jan. 26, she got revulsion, ridicule and death threats. A talk-radio host who called her a freak said his listeners were prepared to boycott any company that helped out mother or babies. Jimmy Kimmel declared that "golden retrievers do not have that many kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling a Truce on the Octuplets Mom | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...wanted to "stuff" it. We tried to cut off its head with hedge clippers, but it was late fall and the creature was far too frozen. 11. I make my own Spice Girls clothing and accessories. 12. I listen to the soundtrack of Sweeney Todd while shaving. 13. Fetuses freak me out. 14. I wrestled a hippopotamus. I used a wrestling move and it went unconscious. 15. I think it's frustrating that ChapStick tastes good when you put it on your lips and lick them, but if you just bite the ChapStick, it tastes like poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 25 More Things I Didn't Want to Know About You | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

...accessible record, but it only invites access on the band’s preconditions—the music never aspires to anything so much as it expects listeners to aspire to the music. Submerged in a seamless ocean of arpeggiated electronic sound, the album affects a reoccurring cycle of freak-pop whose contours range from low-end love songs to psychedelic-dance.The album’s ambitious opener sets the tone. “In The Flowers” seems to emerge from outer space, with Portner’s vocals fading in and out over various layers of keyboard sound...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Animal Collective | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

However, perhaps the companies shouldn't freak out - yet. The DTC issue has not been floated as an early White House priority; it is unlikely to be dealt with until weeks or months after Obama names a nominee for FDA commissioner, an announcement that could come within days. Plus, some of DTC's most vocal critics in Congress aren't calling for an all-out advertising ban. For example, Democratic Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, wants a moratorium on DTC ads during a drug's first two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Doomed? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...jets currently flying, it has begun to show its age in recent years. Last November, an Air National Guard F-15 simply disintegrated in mid-air, prompting the Air Force to ground most of the F-15 fleet. When structural problems—not a pilot error or a freak accident—were determined to be the cause of the crash, General John D.W. Corley announced that “the long-term future of the F-15 is in question.” If F-22 production is not resumed, the Eagle is slated to remain in service...

Author: By Eugene Kim | Title: Why We Need the Raptor | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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