Word: rocks
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...could argue that some jobs - painting, writing, being a rock star - are better performed under the influence. But other jobs should clearly be given only to the perpetually sober: we don't want our railroad operators or nuclear-plant employees to be smoking up on the job. So it seems appropriate that U.S. employees in those high-risk positions are routinely subjected to random drug-testing...
...also giving away boats, trucks and gift cards as part of the game. Overall, it's distributing $10 million in cash and prizes to its top fantasy performers. During fantasy fishing's '08 debut, many winners got lucky. Shellee Kuykendall, a stay-at-home mother of two in Little Rock, Ark., didn't know fishing even had a pro circuit until she heard about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved...
DIED While living a hard-drinking rock-'n'-roll lifestyle, John Martyn, 60, the British folk singer--songwriter, influenced artists such as Eric Clapton, U2 and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour...
...approach to music-making has remained consistently innovative and their output stubbornly unique.For six years and as many albums, Animal Collective narrated a sort of ongoing insane, half-perfect sonic collage of genre, building structurally damaged and occasionally brilliant pop songs out of hastily-rendered foundations of rock, folk, trance and psychedelic music. Oscillating between the creative controls of the respective halves of its founding duo, David “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, the band matured from a cabal of electronic-noise anarchists into fully-fledged experimental...
...year-old pilot named Roger Peterson had agreed to take the singer to Fargo, North Dakota - the closest airport to Moorehead. A snowstorm was on its way and the young pilot was fatigued from a 17-hour workday, but he agreed to fly the rock star to his next gig because, hey, he would be flying Buddy Holly. The second show ended at midnight. The musicians packed up their instruments and finalized the flight arrangements. Holly's bass player, Waylon Jennings, was scheduled to fly on the plane but gave his seat to the Big Bopper, who was suffering from...