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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...West Wing and don't mind mentioning that I periodically trounce every male of my acquaintance with the temerity to think he can beat me at the basketball game Pop-a-Shot. So what if I have not one but two scars on my right hand from baking corn bread, or if since I bought that yellow paint, I preside over the most cheerful dang kitchen in the tri-state area? I don't find it particularly contradictory to sweep my floors while singing along with Riot-Grrrl records. I can bring home the bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Launder My Dish Towels | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...feeds them cracked corn and bread...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protestors Gather to Save Geese | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...from them as a tribe. Historical documents show that as early as 1639 the Paugussetts asked the Governor of Massachusetts to help them recover "squaws" taken into slavery by English settlers. At that time the tribe numbered about 800 members, who fished the Housatonic and Naugatuck rivers and cultivated corn and other vegetables. Sun worshippers, they prayed to the east every morning. Many Paugussetts died fighting in the 1637 Pequot War against the English. After that war, much of their land was sold or taken away. By 1875 the Paugussetts had only a quarter-acre left, and the tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Tribe? | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...foods. U.S. farmers wanting to crack that market are having a tough time getting GM crops past the E.U. borders; now products certified in the U.S. as organic will pass muster. And while this is certainly not the end of the line for GM products like Monsanto's BT corn (pest-resistant crops are just too useful), U.S. consumers may be ready to cut back on their portions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feds Now Firm on What's Organic | 3/5/2000 | See Source »

...Chanda: And when I go home I see like cotton fields, corn fields on the side of the road and I think this is so unlike Harvard Square...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: In Yankee Country: Chitchat | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

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