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Jul 2004Number of individual "songs" for sale in Apple's iTunes Music Store that consist of utter silence : 17
Source:

iTunes Music Store (Cupertino, Calif.)/Harper's research

Jul 2003Number of Grateful Dead concerts attended by columnist Ann Coulter: 67
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William Morris Agency (N.Y.C.)

Mar 2002Number of copyright-violation notices sent to U.S. universities last year by a firm tracking students' music downloads: 7,873
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NetPD (London)

Apr 2001Declared value of the jewelry stolen from rapper Prodigy last December after he left a music-video shoot in Queens: $343,000
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New York City Police Department

Apr 2001Rank of Oasis singer Liam Gallagher among public figures most reviled by Britons: 3
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Madame Tussaud's (London)

Mar 2000Percentage of major U.S. recording labels that use the parental warning stickers advocated by Tipper Gore in 1985: 100
Source:

The Recording Industry Association of America (Washington)

Sep 1999Number of CDs of inspirational and patriotic music for which Senator Orrin Hatch has composed the lyrics: 6
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Office of Sen. Orrin Hatch (Washington)

Jun 1999Number of Kiss concerts that the band has postponed in Russia due to the country's instability and anti-American mood: 3
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Island/Mercury Records (N.Y.C.)

Dec 1998Estimated number of Japanese who have taken a “gospel and rhythm” class this year at Harlem's Memorial Baptist Church: 300
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Memorial Baptist Church (N.Y.C.)

Aug 1998Factor by which the 1915 birth weight of Frank Sinatra exceeds the average weight of a baby born in New Jersey today: 2
Source:

An American Legend, General Publishing Group (Santa Monica, Calif.)/New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (Trenton)

Aug 1998Ratio of the number of Sinatra's gold records to those of Kiss: 1:1
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Recording Industry Association of America (Washington)

Jul 1998Amount Bill Clinton earned last year in residuals for his 1992 saxophone performance on Arsenio Hall : $76
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The White House

Apr 1998Number of CAT scans a Minneapolis radiologist performed last year on violins: 10
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Consulting Radiologists Limited (Minneapolis)

January 25, 2007 New Jersey warned its residents against eating heavy metal-contaminated squirrels.
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AP via ThePittsburghChannel.com

July 11, 2006 Syd Barrett died.
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Reuters Alertnet

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BBC News

July 8, 2006It was reported that Senator Orrin Hatch intervened to get a record producer out of a Dubai jail after he was sentenced to four years for possession of cocaine.
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New York Times

April 29, 2006A Liverpool, England, man was sentenced to 100 hours of community service for getting drunk and singing "YMCA" on a flight from Florida to Manchester while his wife wept and comforted their three children. "He makes no excuses," said the man's lawyer, "for his loutish, idiotic behavior."
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Mirror.co.uk

April 11, 2006A member of MiniKiss, a KISS tribute band made up of dwarves, denied that he had tried to sneak past security at a Las Vegas concert of Tiny Kiss, a KISS tribute band made up of three little people and a 350-pound woman.
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The Los Angeles Times

March 7, 2006 Yanni was arrested for allegedly hitting his girlfriend.
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The Smoking Gun

January 27, 2006 Mozart turned 250.
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CTV.ca

January 26, 2006In Manchester, England, the BBC was planning an Easter tribute in which Jesus Christ will sing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division before joining Judas in a duet of "Blue Monday" by New Order. Later, as Roman soldiers flay him, Jesus will sing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths.
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The Guardian

June 8, 2005A new Bach aria was discovered in Germany.
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CNN.com

June 12, 2004An astronomer in Virginia reconstructed the sound of the Big Bang and discovered that it sounded at first like a "majestic" major third chord and then changed to a "sadder" minor third.
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New Scientist

June 11, 2004 Ray Charles died.
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New York Times

May 24, 2004 Colombian rebels blew up a disco.
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Associated Press

April 4, 2004A Japanese robot conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
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New Scientist

March 14, 2004 Luciano Pavarotti gave his last staged performance.
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Associated Press

January 8, 2004 Australian physicists concluded that the high notes sung by opera singers are often hard to understand.
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BBC

September 13, 2003 Johnny Cash died.
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New York Times

October 1, 2002 Texas executed a clown who murdered two young girls for playing loud music and talking back when he asked them to turn it down.
October 2, 2001 Germany's minister for cultural affairs released an official definition of rock music: “an entity of all musical forms that are usually created with the help of electronic amplifiers and follows the broader taste in music, usually for dancing, that is spread through the media and live concerts.” Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was overheard humming a tune by his favorite band, The Scorpions.
September 25, 2001After four concerts of his music were cancelled, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, apologized for describing the attack on the World Trade Center as “the greatest work of art one can imagine . . . the greatest work of art there is in the entire cosmos.”
August 28, 2001 Iranian police launched a crackdown on “flagrant manifestations of corruption,” including selling pet dogs, playing loud music, and displaying women's underwear in shop windows.
January 16, 2001 Researchers found that the human love of music was instinctual, a mere animal reflex.
October 31, 2000 Islamic students demonstrated in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, chanting “Kill All Jews.” Music by Richard Wagner was performed in concert in Israel for the first time; the “Siegfried Idyll” was protested briefly by a Holocaust survivor who stood up before the concert and made loud noises with a rattle.
September 12, 2000 German police confiscated 7,500 neo-Nazi music CDs.

December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

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