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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...soon as I walked into the store I found it extremely difficult not to tell everybody that I, and not my nonwriter friend, had penned the best ice cream name the store would ever have. I saw the store's other sad, poorly written flavors, like Peanut Butter in My Chocolate and Cassie's Blue Cotton Candy with Sprinkles and the particularly lazy Vanilla. I found myself speaking in a loud, pastoral voice, saying, "My friend is amazingly talented, huh? Someone who perhaps should quit his day job and write a serious piece of literary fiction. He is what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste My Brand New Flavor | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Half the country is fat, half low-fat. Butter and eggs, once out, are in; I suppose you have tossed them out again. Coffee, once considered poison, turns out to be harmless. Red meat is not as lethal as once thought. Take a shot of Scotch, of red wine. Take a shot: vaccines are on the way soon that will prevent pneumonia, rheumatic fever, meningitis and the flu. There's a new prospect called regenerative medicine--using the body's own stem cells and growth factors to repair tissue. We make ourselves anew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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