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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Santos said that the company met with the laid-off employees and told them they had the right to collect unemployment benefits until placements open up elsewhere...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Protest Layoffs at HMS | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...band "The Castiles" (and later the lead singer) when he was 16. In the late 1960s, Springsteen performed briefly in a trio known as "Earth," performing mostly in New Jersey clubs. It was reportedly during this period that Springsteen acquired the famed moniker "The Boss," as he would collect the band's pay and then distribute it among his band-members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce Springsteen | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...requiring certain information—will stay constant. Only the format will change. To the young people who discover those formats: Cheers!—you earned it. To the Gazettes, Heralds, and Registers who could not keep up and are assuredly not playing Monopoly anymore: Do not collect $200 as you pass...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 3 | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...police thought they'd been looking everywhere. But it turns out they should have been looking down - at the cotton swabs they were using to collect DNA samples. On March 26, German police revealed that the cotton swabs they use may have all been contaminated by the same worker at a factory in Austria - and that the Phantom of Heilbronn never existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Phantom Serial Killer: A DNA Blunder | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...This raised suspicions that the DNA found at all the Phantom's crime scenes might be traced to a single innocent factory worker, probably employed to package the swabs. Cotton swabs are sterilized before being used to collect DNA samples, but while sterilizing removes bacteria, viruses and fungi, it does not destroy DNA. (Read a TIME cover story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Phantom Serial Killer: A DNA Blunder | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

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