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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guys." This collection of never-been-released music from the original motion pictures, unearthed from a Bollywood bungalow, delivers just that promise. The brothers combine the rhythms of their native Rajasthan with the grooves that came vibing Eastward from America and Europe to kick up the wildest and funkiest corn you ever bought for a lark. Curried with additional drum tracks by DJ Josh Davis, the pieces preserve their essence of unbelievably tacky sexiness. It's hard to pick favorites from a menu so prime and juicy, but "Ganges A Go-Go" and "Punjabis, Pimps & Players" have to be right...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Kalyanji, Anandji | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...between the trendy Tapas Restaurant Dali and the upscale Wine and Cheese Cask, the 40 foot by 12 foot ice chest pays homage to 1950s trailer aesthetic. The white washed walls of this oversized freezer are colorfully decorated with various little snowmen clad in black top hats, red scarves, corn cob pipes and overflowing bags of ice. Unable to resist the vast gleaming white sides of the ice cabin, crafty taggers continuously sully the innocent snowmen with black spray paint. Not only a last-minute resource for party melt-downs, the structure also acts as a billboard for the company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

Advising Over Corn Flakes...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report Reveals Spotty Advising Among Depts. | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...healthy harvest, the best place to turn for help these days is the Monsanto Corp. One of the world's leading biotechnology companies--and lately a pioneer in genetically engineered seeds--Monsanto has been incorporating flashy traits like herbicide and pest resistance into everything from canola to corn. But such supercrops don't come cheap. Farmers pay a premium for Monsanto seeds, and to make sure they keep paying, the company requires them to sign an agreement promising not to plant seeds their crops produce. If farmers want the same bountiful harvest next year, they must return to the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suicide Seeds | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...standard methods for rewriting nature's codes. Pellets coated with DNA are fired into the chromosomes of a plant that biotech engineers wish to alter in some amazing way. Then, after patient cultivation to bring out the inserted trait, a prodigy is born. The transformed crop may be corn or cotton with a built-in insecticide, tomatoes that retain their fresh-picked texture on the shelf, or wheat with extra gluten, making for lighter, bouncier bread. The new crop of doctors has been so busy re-enacting the Creation in the past few years that Americans, at least, no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brave New Farm | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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