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...hardly seems possible, but some rappers are getting on in years. Just as the Rolling Stones and The Who had to adjust to the arrival of younger generations of rock performers, so have certain rap groups had to face the problem of becoming superannuated. When Public Enemy came along in the mid- 1980s, rap was mostly party music, but the band helped change all that. Their songs were dense and aggressive and carried militant political messages. Public Enemy made rap serious, and sold millions of records in the process. But it has taken the band three years to release...
...derail the guidelines. A group of 32 members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split a human embryo in a process called cloning...
...once the rights were extended to the entire populace, she said, it was easier for South Africa to adjust because some of its people had already enjoyed some...
...smileys," the little faces constructed with punctuation marks and | intended to convey the winks, grins and grimaces of ordinary conversations. Somehow it all flows together quite smoothly. On the other hand, polished prose copied onto bulletin boards from books and magazines often seems long- winded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can come across as self-important blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Says Brock Meeks, a Washington-based reporter who covers the online culture for Communications Daily: "There are a bunch of hacker kids out there who can string a sentence together better...
...been rough--we've really had to adjust," freshman Mike Hochanadel says. "But you can't write off the season just because of that. There are a lot of factors...