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Sure, Jammin' 94.5 is in full effect back there, but the smooth beats don't nearly compensate for the rank funk in this space. You want to take care to separate your paper trash and silverware from what goes on the conveyor belt, but the mind-numbing odor leads many to just drop and bail, squeezing their noses like four-year olds jumping off a diving board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...beauty of this last step is that YOU, the reader, must write it for yourself. This step is where you define your very essence in Praline Pecan. There are no limits. Get "freaky" and "totally in your face." Or my face, as it were. Then send it down the conveyor belt for all to enjoy...

Author: By Rich D. Ma, ILLUSTRATIONS BY VALERIE A. EDMONSON | Title: HOW TO: SCULPT FRO-YO | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...while we lack the snazzy conveyor belt that showered, clothed, primped and fed the Jetsons, we can still speed through our minutiae. No more blaming our short attention spans on Sesame Street. Datesite is convenient. Here are some names--find me a date while I dash off for more Jolt and recharge my cell phone. Hand over the remote control and bring on the Ping Pong Network...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, | Title: Endpaper: Due Apprehension in a Brave New World | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...choice. I'm Asian for Chrissakes. Sometimes, I feel like I've been strapped to a conveyor belt my whole life and I'm slowly headed toward some dark, yawning abyss in the distance often referred to as the Real World. Its definitely not the processed, edited-for-melodrama hi-jinks of the MTV version, but something far more sinister. It is a place where kids somehow lose their souls on the way to being bonafide adults, those people who connive, deceive and ass-kiss, among other things, to claw their way to the top, wherever THAT...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, | Title: The Road to Nowhere | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned future childbirth as a very orderly affair. At the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, in accordance with orders from the Social Predestination Room, eggs were fertilized, bottled and put on a conveyor belt. Nine months later, the embryos--after "decanting"--were babies. Thanks to state-sponsored brainwashing, they would grow up delighted with their genetically assigned social roles--from clever, ambitious alphas to dim-witted epsilons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Good Genes? | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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