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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...maintain the strength of Japanese society. The DPJ won a watershed political victory with the help of a couple of political slogans: "Regime Change" and "Livelihood First." The former happened almost overnight. Achieving the goals implied by the latter will take years. The Japanese people are patient. They've waited decades to raise a new political party to power. Now it's up to the DPJ to prove the wait was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sea Change in Japanese Politics | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Quadlings no longer have to wait “16 in” until the next shuttle. The shuttleboy text message system – a lifesaver for the many quad residents who have misplaced their shuttle cards on a rainy day – has changed its text message lingo. The once bootleg responses that abbreviated minutes as “in” instead of “min” and often ended with an ellipsis of four periods has started to respond to texts with far more normal parlance...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer | Title: Say Goodbye to "Happy trails...." | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...afford to wait. The longer someone is unemployed, the harder it is to get back to work, a fact as true for the nation as it is for you and me. As the Peterson Institute's Jacob Kirkegaard explains, "It is entirely possible that what started as a cyclical rise in unemployment could end up as an entrenched problem." Past crises have illustrated that lesson: the longer you wait, the harder it is to contain. This is as true for joblessness as it was for subprime mortgages, al-Qaeda and computer viruses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...himself on my syringe,” Barth said. “When my post-doc came in, he looked at me and just said, ‘I’ll go get you a new one.’ And I was like, ‘no, wait, I need a minute! I killed a bird, and it’s really, really...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...Wait, who the f*** is Joe Wilson...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: So You Think You Can Shout | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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