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...genre they call chiptune. Most enthusiasts are people in their 20s and 30s who find themselves drawn to the sounds of early video games, to blend those electronic bleeps and bloops with rock, pop and hip-hop. Chiptune is still relatively obscure: in 2007, hip-hop artist Timbaland got in trouble for sampling a tune composed by a Finnish chiptune musician in one of his songs. That same year, a rapper named Megaran released a Mega Man-themed album that landed him a deal with video-game publisher Capcom. But so far, that's pretty much it. Chiptune music...
...been trying to get an interview with President Obama pretty much since he was elected. How did it finally come about? Well, they were doing a video on Sept. 8 on education and they wanted me to interview President Obama [for] the video. My teacher, Mr. Zimmerman, got a phone call from the White House. He told my mom, and my mom told...
What made you want to get into journalism in the first place? Well, Mr. Zimmerman thought that I'd be good on the school news crew. So he [got] me to go do a report about Joe Biden. It was my first interview. (See pictures of Joe Biden...
...shift medical incentives from quantity to quality, from paying for volume to paying for outcomes. But except for a couple of demonstration projects designed to investigate why care costs so much more in some parts of the country, that hasn't been the focus of congressional legislation. "We've got to get the incentives aligned, or else we'll keep punishing excellent care, and we'll keep encouraging providers to do more procedures and tests and admissions and readmissions," says Jeff Korsmo, executive director of the Mayo Clinic's health-policy center. "We haven't seen a lot of progress...
...group heavily persecuted by the Taliban regime, saw her sons' education as the family's ticket out of desperation. Kosar thought his fluent English and new bachelor's degree in human resources and management would guarantee him a good job in a country crying out for professionals. When he got an interview as a human-resources assistant in a government ministry, he was confident of getting the job - until he encountered the interviewer. "I was more knowledgeable than he was, and I was supposed to be his assistant," says Kosar. He was rejected. The same thing had happened to most...