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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...save $52 for every ton we are able to recycle instead of discard as trash,” Gogan said. “So we do have to pay for it, but it is less than we would have paid to get it land-filled...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Opening Days Boost Harvard Recycling | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...latest miracle from the land of the free is Google Voice, a product that instantly dispatches standard voice mail to the slag heap of obsolescence. Available to selected users since the spring, it's now open to the rest of us. (You can sign up, my little 9 volt, at google.com/voice I'm told you'll be on the waitlist for a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Ring to Rule Them All | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...number, causing all those phones to ring simultaneously when anyone calls. Now when my phones ring, I pick up whichever is most convenient. If need be, I can press * to make all my phones ring again and hand the call from my cell to my land line or vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Ring to Rule Them All | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi, the sole person jailed for the deaths of 270 people in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, had served just eight years of a 27-year sentence. After all their grieving, the victims' loved ones had to watch al-Megrahi land in Tripoli, Libya, to rapturous crowds and the embrace of a delighted Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the country's leader. The White House called the homecoming "disgusting," and London let it be known that it had asked Gaddafi to keep al-Megrahi's arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: The Lockerbie Bomber | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...begin with an analysis of the schools that didn't really deserve to land a spot on the list.  To preface this segment, we'd like to clarify that FlyBy holds itself to the strictest standards of urbandictionary.com style, which generally classify a "douchebag" as a "pretentious, sugar-coated" type of "asshole."  GQ seems to have expanded the lexicon for the word to anyone who fits a semi-humorous stereotype its editors have concocted.  We respectfully disagree with this method, and thus reject the top-25 ranking of these schools...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: It Takes One To Know One: Reviewing GQ's "Douchiest College" List | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

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