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...mother, a drug dealer, was murdered when he was 8. By age 12 he had escaped his grandmother's supervision and was selling crack. "I wrote rhymes too," he says. "I loved music, but I never saw a way to break into it." In 1996 he met neighborhood legend Jam Master Jay, the pioneering DJ from Run-D.M.C. From that point until his shooting death last year, Jay acted as 50's mentor and promoter, with an eye toward a future payday. "He was really patient with me," says 50, who was questioned by police following Jay's murder...
...signed a deal with Columbia Records. (Jam Master Jay got a reported $50,000 of the $65,000 advance.) While Columbia spent the next two years figuring out how to market him, 50 marketed himself, releasing a bootleg single called How to Rob, in which he fantasized about ripping off every hip-hop star from Jay-Z to Mariah Carey. "Making that song was not a creative decision," he says. "People who sell a lot of records have a lot of diamonds and a lot of cars. I wanted those, but I also wanted to get those people's attention...
...exercise. Motorists make emotional decisions about when to pass, for example, and tend to think the lane next to them is going faster even when it isn't, according to research by Donald Redelmeier of the University of Toronto and Robert Tibshirani of Stanford University. And once in a jam, they're apt see themselves only as victims rather than part of the problem. There is, however, one big city where congestion charging has become an accepted part of life: Singapore. Granted, that city also accepts caning. But it's the one comparable model, and the results have been tremendous...
...staying in the shot lanes,” Grumet-Morris said. “That allowed me to see most of the action and hold onto the puck. In a 5-on-3, [the offense’s] job is to put it in, get rebounds and jam it home, but we did a good job in stifling that...
...discover, for example, that one raspberry tart is the equivalent of eight cups of raspberries with whipped topping and that one scone has the same number of calories as a bowl of oatmeal with peaches plus an English muffin with jam plus a bowl of cherries plus a bowl of cornflakes with banana plus two slices of light toast with marmalade plus a bowl of orange and pineapple slices...