Young professionals are catapulting off the corporate ship that has characterized the working class for a couple hundred centuries into the cold dark waters of entrepreneurship, hoping to find paradise or at least freedom from the course they seem set for.

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It all started when I returned home from college after my freshman year to find my newfound freedom again weighed down by daily parental oversight.

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About 60 surgeries face losing income from dispensing drugs after pharmacists used the Freedom of Information Act to find out how much they were making.

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Borrowing from the Tim Ferriss school of thought, I find money to be merely an enabler of freedom.

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Both men said they wanted the floor plan to reflect their new freedom the fact that the whole space was theirs and they didn't have to find separation from other people.

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I'm even cautiously optimistic that the current impasse over gun regulation is a bad-equilibrium that few consumers actually want, and that a reconstructed Freedom Group, fighting for sensible change as a fifth column from within the industry, might well find that many people -- even a significant portion of the NRA's members -- would buy from a truly responsible (and high quality) gunmaker if given the chance.

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