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...three more individuals and so on--until, presumably, peace is established in the Middle East. This is not dissimilar to Frank Capra's John Doe movement and, indeed, the movie ends on a populist-sentimental note that's in Capra's vein, but shamelessly so. It's Capra-corn without the Capra craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Intentions, Bad Film | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...ancestors were patrician New Englanders. But he has bought property in a forgotten part of Texas off a small state highway west of Waco that isn't on the way to or from anywhere of note. The land is rolling blackland prairie used to pasture Hereford cattle or grow corn or wheat. It has a nice view across miles of fields and pastures. Unlike Johnson, Bush makes no pretense that the ranch will be a working enterprise. He says he'll spend his time there reading or walking with Laura or doing chores around the property. In other words, Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Couple of Texas Ranchers | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Breakfast, served in the dining room, sun porch, garden--or even in bed--includes blended juices, salmon cakes, scrambled eggs and scallions, cheese hominy grits, corn bread, fried apples and turkey sausage. Or visitors can stroll to the corner and enjoy African, Caribbean and Southern fare at the Akwaaba Cafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome Home: AKWAABA MANSION, BROOKLYN, N.Y. | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...tainted seed get into the tacos? They are sold by Kraft but made by a Mexican company whose corn comes from any number of U.S. farms. Farmers who grow StarLink do so on the condition that they'll keep it out of human food supplies--a promise that's easy to elicit but hard to enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tempest in a Taco Shell | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...Critics have long warned that once bioengineered genes get into any part of the food chains there's no telling when they'll turn up on our plates. Sure enough, early last week Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a consumer and environmental group, reported that traces of DNA from GM corn not approved for human consumption had been discovered in Taco Bell's tacos. The corn, known as StarLink, contains a gene from a bacterium that makes the corn deadly to corn borers but not to cows. It was approved for use as cattle feed but not for human consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tempest in a Taco Shell | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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