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The Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) has produced a wide variety of measurements which have led to major strides in our understanding of the structure of strongly interacting matter heated beyond the deconfinement temperature. We focus on a class of observables centered around the perturbative modification of hard jets and jet-like correlations which have been instrumental in resolving the basic picture underlying some of the startling discoveries at RHIC. Jet modification and jet medium interactions will be shown to yield a consistent space-time profile of the expanding bulk matter and in conjunction with bulk fluctuations demonstrate sensitivity to the basic degrees of freedom prevalent in the Quark Gluon Plasma.