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...About six months ago, a drunken Harvard student walked right into the back of the store," she says. "Without saying a word, he opened the cooler, and just urinated all over the gatorade section." As Josie says, "I didn't know what to do--I just stood there watching, speechless." And the funny thing is, she claims that it wouldn't have been so bad after all if it had been the first time something like that had happened. In fact, "that was the third time someone had pissed all over our store." Note to self: buy Gatorade...
...virgin at 25, one woman helps the reader feel to what extent her virginity has controlled her life by filling her essay with passion. Another contributor, also writing about losing control of his life, he with the help of heroin, allows himself to take a tone that is cooler and more detached because his experience is more commonly expressed and understood. A black writer, examining the conflict he feels between his race and his middle class upbringing, writes his essay largely in the second person, thereby splitting himself in two so as to allow for a dialogue. To show indecision...
When they first achieved prominence back in the '80s, the Beasties styled themselves as hipper than hip-hop, cooler than punk and masters of both. The trio's over-the-top boasts seemed to send up each genre's excesses. But the Beasties' new CD comes across not as a send-up but as a limp imitation of more interesting performers. The album's buzzing, beeping, video-game-like sound is an exhausted ripoff of hip-hop folk star Beck. A few songs work, like the sci-fi rap number Intergalactic. But for the most part, listening to this album...
...drone trapped in a dull gray cubicle? Monimals USA of Scottsdale, Ariz., has developed furry monitor covers in cow, moose, lion and sheep motifs to help cheer you up. Sold with matching screen savers, Monimals ($20 or $27 each) keep dust at bay and are great for generating water-cooler buzz...
...Pakistan and India pull back? Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said his country might reach an agreement not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. Domestic opposition to his party's nuclear jingoism is starting to emerge now that cooler heads assess how much sanctions, like the World Bank's postponement of an $865 million loan, may hurt. Even some in the Indian military are urging restraint. "I don't see a warlike situation building up on either side," says General V.P. Malik, chief of staff...