Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEEF: Big Business bad for little guy STUNT: Senioritas in granny getups performed protest songs to tunes of old standards...
...people or anarchists. Personally that sounds like a lot to ask from people already willing to spend entire days discussing tariffs, but still, I am definitely down with the protesters in Seattle. They are expressing rage about being dominated by corporations like Starbucks, McDonald's and Nike. I hate big corporations. Unfortunately, like most Americans I like the products they make. But I like the idea of breaking store windows and bothering police while dressed as a sea turtle even more. So to prepare for my role as protester for the next WTO convention, I needed my own peeve with...
...years I've noticed that McDonald's signs across America have their counters stuck at 99 BILLION SERVED. McDonald's, I figured, was waiting for just the right moment to spring a big 100 BILLION campaign on us based on the assumption that people who eat poultry nuggets are easily duped...
...this era of big science, most of the research on the 1918 virus has been done on shoestring budgets by determined individuals. Kolata celebrates the obscure scientists who did the scut work, which included collecting tissue samples from bodies moldering in permafrost for eight decades. Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington didn't have to go far. While searching through the institute's museum of diseased body parts ("a Library of Congress of the Dead," says Kolata), Taubenberger found a lung scrap from an Army private who died on Sept...
...happen to us as we become more compartmentalized and end up relying more and more on computers in virtually every aspect of our lives. Today I sit cloaked in a grim sense of defeat. I feel myself staring blankly into my glaring monitor, mumbling in quavering tones, "Long live Big Brother." JANE WANKLIN London...