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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Martin isn't alone. With the unemployment rate hitting its highest level in more than a quarter-century, a growing number of the nation's jobless are striking out on their own to pay their rent and put food on the table - some doing freelance and contracting work, others launching full-blown independent businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobless Entrepreneurs Face Tax Minefields | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...concentrations of 30 outdoor samples that were collected by Harvard range from undetectable levels to 3.29 mg/kg, according to University spokesman Joshua D. Poupore. Three of these samples exceeded the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection soil screening level of 2 mg/kg—a benchmark that, if exceeded, requires more testing. The EPA recommends additional screening for levels above 1 mg/kg...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toxins Found in Peabody Terrace | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...compositional techniques guiding each song’s overall development can also be heard on a micro level, with constant subtle variations on otherwise repetitive riffs. This is most evident in Chippendale’s frenetic drumming, which offloads much of its traditional duty as repetitive time-keeper to Gibson’s chunky, rhythmic bass. Chippendale is thus free to play as a soloist in a jazz combo, exploring every possible subdivision and inversion of the dominant rhythmic motif. The drums in “Nation of Boar” heighten tension as they increase in complexity, reaching...

Author: By Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lightning Bolt | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...spacious, lush, and shockingly dark production values on “Embryonic” comprise the only substantive lens through which comparisons to earlier material can be made. The sheer level of studio precision involved in crafting these songs—feedback and percussion loops, vocal layering, electronic flourishes—can’t escape a comparison to the techniques that brought “The Soft Bulletin” to life. But the relationship between the two records is almost totally inverted: while “The Soft Bulletin” brought a cinematic—at times...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Flaming Lips | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...reformist who reinvigorated the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 2005 election around the issue of privatization of the national postal system. Now lending his voice to the iconic Ultraman King character, the elder of the clan on the television series Ultraman, Koizumi will take his leadership to another level, in film and outer space, with lines like "Rise again, warriors of the Land of Light! For peace and justice!" Such is a rallying cry Koizumi's old party could probably use about now, having suffered a major loss to the Democratic Party of Japan in August's general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Former PM Koizumi Lends His Voice to Ultraman | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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