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Rock musician Jay Bennett, 45, joined Wilco in 1995 at the behest of the band's front man, Jeff Tweedy, and helped the group create several critically acclaimed albums, including Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2002. That year he left the band amid tension with Tweedy over Wilco's musical direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...most people, being caught in an enclosed space with either a terrorist or a ventriloquist would qualify as a hostage situation. But Jeff Dunham, a ventriloquist, is perhaps the most popular stand-up comedian in the U.S. And he broke through by playing straight man to a terrorist - a fiberglass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Puppet Master | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...done it so successfully that he may have inspired a minor ventriloquism renaissance. Terry Fator, a singing ventriloquist who won America's Got Talent in 2007, now has a 10-year contract at the Mirage in Vegas. "Jeff was a huge inspiration to me," he says. "But I'm competitive now. I've got a DVD coming out too." And at least one dummy manufacturer says business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Puppet Master | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...means at his disposal. But his most potent weapon may be his teeth. "Beware of anyone who doesn't smile!" he told voters at a recent campaign rally, flashing his trademark toothy grin. "Beware of anyone who takes themselves too seriously!" The show, my friends, must go on. - Jeff Israely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Elections: A Blow to Brown, Boost for Merkel | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...very end of every school year, on a big campus, it's like 10,000 evictions are happening at the same time," says Jeff Ferrell, a sociology professor at Texas Christian University and the author of Empire of Scrounge, a book on Dumpster diving. "What do you do with all that perfectly reusable stuff that gets tossed?" The answer, increasingly, is to start a collection program like TCU's Trash to Treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumpster Diving: Colleges Get Smart on Salvage | 6/7/2009 | See Source »

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