What confuses the Editors is the problem of re-hiring those who lost their jobs in the recession (my barber shop in Cape Coral, FL has five chairs and only two barbers due to the adverse impact of the recession) vs. the question of who provides jobs over time.

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The project has sparked interest from a barber shop quartet in the U.S., whose members want to attempt a performance where each singer is in a different geographical location.

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Under one such marker lies a young man--Martin Treptow--who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division.

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Mr Quadir likes to tell the story of a barber in Bangladesh who could not afford the rent for a shop, so he bought a mobile phone and a motorbike instead, scheduling appointments by phone and going to his clients' homes.

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Who has yet to see the sunny Samsung commercial in which a doting James pours Lucky Charms for his young sons, drives past celebrating Miami kids in a steroidal Jeep and pops into the Escobar Barber Shop for a triumphant cut?

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And actually, the reason that he and his mother, who were estranged, happened to be in the shop was because they both shared a barber.

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Intrigued, I walked in to find the shop had been taken over by a new barber named Tony.

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That created a stir in Sam's Barber Shop, tucked into a strip shopping center around the corner from City Hall.

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Hutchinson-Foster has admitted using the same gun to beat barber Peter Osadebay at a barber's shop in Dalston, east London, just six days before Mr Duggan's death.

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Last year a court in Manisa found that a barber's shop had been set on fire not as the police first claimed by a Molotov cocktail but by a leaky gas cylinder.

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