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...sold by gender--toms as cutlets and deli meats, hens as whole birds. So turkey breeders must separate hatchlings at birth. But genetic breeding has made it nearly impossible to tell the difference without, uh, checking the goods, a messy process at best. The Merck team patented Gender-Specific Fading Down, meaning boys are born with black feathers, girls with brown. The colors fade as the turkeys grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will They Think Of Next? | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...interesting President, perfectly suited for a time when politics resembles a spectator sport, broadcast into millions of homes through the good offices of CNN. He inspired more novels and biographies, more praise and more hatred, than any leader since Nixon--perhaps since FDR, even. And while he himself may fade away, into Hollywood or Westchester, the memory of the Age of Clinton will linger in our collective psyche long after his successors have dragged their second-rate variety acts offstage...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Why I'll Miss Bill Clinton | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Take the economy. Everyone knows it's slowing and that corporate profits will fade in tandem. Bad news for stocks, right? But wait. With inflation tame, the Federal Reserve has room to lower interest rates, prevent a recession and kick off another bounteous period of accelerating growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking The Bull | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America." Not only before the outcome, but afterward too, wherever Bush wants, so that the pair can "unite the country behind the winner as soon as this process is completed." Get it? Unite, not divide? Fade out: They walk arm in arm into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America." Not only before the outcome, but afterward too, wherever Bush wants, so that the pair can "unite the country behind the winner as soon as this process is completed." Get it? Unite, not divide? Fade out: They walk arm in arm into the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Gambit, Bush's Brush-Off | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

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