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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make the honor roll. It seems that we must eliminate the deviant geniuses and artists in favor of the conforming sycophants whom some see as the fountainhead of societal progress. O brave new world! JOHN M. DE PALMA Succsunna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

BLUE GENES Welcome to the brave new greenhouse. Last week Florigene, a biotech company based in Australia, launched its line of violet carnations, Moonshadow, which do not exist in nature but were genetically engineered using a gene from petunias. The company plans to release a black carnation (made with an eggplant gene) next year and eventually hopes to create blue-hued roses. Maybe one day it will even make people into Smurfs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flower Power | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

This summer, tens of millions of American parents will brave the age-old hazards of traveling with children: roadside diaper changes, backseat imbroglios, teenagers who would rather be anywhere else--especially since the dog just had an accident behind the cooler. According to Meredith Corp.'s Family Vacation Travel Report, about 20% of traveling parents will borrow even more trouble by including grandparents in the family vacation, while others will join the growing trend of squeezing extra mileage out of business trips by bringing the kids along. Says a road-weary mom: "Sometimes it takes so much effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Travel: Are We There Yet? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...modesty of Rosa Parks' example that sustains us. It is no less than the belief in the power of the individual, that cornerstone of the American Dream, that she inspires, along with the hope that all of us--even the least of us--could be that brave, that serenely human, when crunch time comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torchbearer ROSA PARKS | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Noyce explained that Wilson at times plays soccer with Noyce's children--always as goalie. Noyce called Wilson a "brave" goalie, despite Noyce's fears that one of her children might send a particularly hard kick Wilson...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Endowed Directorship to Honor Wilson | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

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