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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These are people who live on the razor's edge and defy death and do things where people die," he continued. "They're not going to consider grabbing a woman's breast or a buttock a major situation. That's much ado about nothing," Ventura told the interviewer...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder and Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: With Nation Watching, Ventura Comes to Harvard | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...government officials to the nation's academics. At his fingertips is the apparatus of one of the most powerful state information machines in the world, and it can all be harnessed to send one simple message to each of those 1.3 billion people: There is no God. When you die, you're dead. The only finger on your fate is your own. "Many people in China are facing a crisis of faith," he admits. "But I still believe that the majority of the Chinese people believe in dialectical materialism. As Deng Xiaoping predicted: As long as China survives, socialism will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Search For Its Soul | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...colon or rectum. For those whose cancer is discovered at the earliest stages, the odds of living at least five more years are greater than 90%. Unfortunately, fewer than 40% of colorectal cancers are discovered that soon. In the same period, about 56,000 people in the U.S. will die of the disease, making it the second greatest cancer killer, after lung cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colon Checkup | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...relates to the young people on the streets. I do not believe that rappers' recordings "celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade," as Gwynne wrote. They are merely drawing our attention to ghetto life and the ugly truth of it. In the ghetto you have to be tough or die. I know from being with these people that they are just as affectionate and frightened as everybody else. SAFFRON BAGGALLAY Johannesburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Remember last week when we wrote about how the Backstreet Boys still make us cry? This week, we talk to the people who think they should die. While many of our population stay in counting our Dave Matthews T-shirts and WBCN buttons, a gang of subterranean music-lovers is stoically, imperceptibly up in arms over the death of real music. The existential angst of today's sell-out music industry is visited on their bodies in rings, rags and tattoos. They congregate daily at the underground hub of the hub of the universe, and sling albums, gig times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Eating Pop? Notes From The Underground | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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