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...women (assuming that if women in the Hasty Pudding show are men, then men are women)? Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger '00) is a dangerously subversive character, a postmodern repetition of the much-parodied "White House intern" figure. Doused in blush and armed with a lolli (ta)pop, Schlesinger's cotton candy-cum-phallus act is not very sexy, but still a marked improvement over Monica...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hasty Pudding Rushmores Through History of America | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Judith P. Bowman, president of Protocol Consultants International, agrees, adding that clothes should be of high quality, in good repair and made from natural fabrics, such as cotton and wool. Stay away from polyester and other synthetics, she warns...

Author: By Alysson R. Ford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Look Sharp: Dressing for Business | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

...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 »

...anticipating where things were headed, and he probably understood the implications of the social and demographic currents that were sweeping the country--especially outside its cities--better than anyone else in business. That acumen hastened his rise from humble proprietor of a variety store in the little Delta cotton town of Newport, Ark., to largest retailer in the world and richest man in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discounting Dynamo: Sam Walton | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

BAND-AID Johnson & Johnson sold $3 000 worth of handmade Band-Aids in 1921, the year it introduced them. A company cotton buyer, Earle Dickson, had created them at home for his accident-prone wife. He then convinced his boss that the strips had merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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