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They beckon from supermarket-check-out racks with alluring packaging and absurdly tasty-sounding flavors: chocolate banana split, java chip, mocha latte swirl. But unlike candy and cookies, energy bars have staked out the nutritional high ground. They promise guilt-free bursts of energy and obscure but seemingly healthful extras--antioxidants, "fast-burn nutrition technology" and, in the breathless words of one, "31,000 mg amino acids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Power to You | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...prize for the most suggestive instructions,though, goes to Michael W. Lin '00 of Quincy. Linhanded a banana to each bachelorette, onespectator says, and asked her to bite off as muchof the fruit as possible...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Make Love Connections | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Which may give some accounting executives cause for concern. But perhaps it?s the data entry folks who should feel most threatened by this turn of events. The monkeys were able to identify the numbers on a touch-sensitive computer screen; press one banana followed by two trees and three triangles, for example, and the almighty unseen hand delivers a special reward. It was, said Columbia psychology professor Herbert Terrace, "like using your password to get money from a cash machine." So if an infinite number of monkeys are given an infinite number of ATMs, presumably one of them will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey See, Monkey Do | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...They really show someone who doesn't know fur that well what all the possibilities are," says Gaskins. His collection now includes a mink top patterned after an oversize fisherman's sweater. Saga's website trumpets the fact that a designer who has worked for the Gap and Banana Republic has visited. Fur-trimmed khakis, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Warming Up To Fur | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...this summer she worked at Banana Republic...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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