Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago the Food and Drug Administration, acknowledging growing public concern, held the first of three public forums on g.m. foods. FrankenTony showed up, along with a covey of kids dressed as monarch butterflies, feigning death before a mock cornstalk--an allusion to the discovery by scientists last spring that, at least in the lab, pollen from g.m. corn can kill the butterfly's caterpillars. Not to be left out, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman was said to be considering the appointment of a panel of experts to advise him on the pros and cons of biotech. And in the surest...
...feeling of letdown everyone will experience starting Jan. 1, along with a pounding headache, nausea, sensitivity to any sound louder than a mouse cough and wishing that the world had in fact come to an end just after midnight...
...resentment born of the suspicion that all along the media were up to their usual tricks, hyping a notional calamity to the max in order to make us buy more copies and tune into TV specials titled The Day the Food Ran Out. Then, too, followers of certain religious sects will no doubt find it puzzling, if not downright disappointing, that the new year didn't begin with a spectacular slapdown between the Antichrist and Godzilla. Of course, preachers can always say the Creator called them on their cell phones at 11:59 p.m. to say Armageddon was being postponed.The...
...latter is included in the American Museum show, which runs through May, along with photos, paintings and artifacts such as textiles and carvings that replicate body decorations. Schildkrout hopes visitors will come away from the exhibition understanding that "everyone does body art in one form or another. It's just the conventions that change...
...government wanting to bust up Microsoft, Y2K threatening the globe, the Internet challenging the mall. Ignore it? O.K. But then forget about beating the market, and go buy an index fund. Really. You'd get a market weighting in tech stocks (24% of the S&P 500) along with low expenses and tax-efficient management. That's a great deal...