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Take deejay battles. Turntablists stand before two Technics and a mixer to vie against their opponents by cutting samples, juggling beats and hyping up the crowd with antics like scratching as they give their opponents the finger. Standing in a crowd before such a spectacle is especially dope because everyone else around you shares your aesthetic sensibilities. It's as if you hear echoes of your own thoughts: "Yo that shit is RIDICULOUS...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: Notes on the Beat | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...perception of pain. In an email, Dr. Fields described the nervous system as unique in that it has what he called "intentionality." This philosophical term means, quite simply, that "it is about something other than itself." Specific neuronal impulses trigger perceptions that are then projected onto the body. "Your finger hurts," he wrote, "but really it is your brain that hurts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...even happen in Littleton, a town of 35,000 near the dusty-tan foothills of the Rockies, just southwest of Denver. It was once a small prairie town of gold rushers and traders, where the biggest scare was getting hit by a prairie dog. Now it's a stretched finger of the big city, with aspiring families who don't lock their doors, enclaves with names like Coventry and Raccoon Creek and Bel Flower, scrubland turned into golf courses, houses than run anywhere from $75,000 to $5 million or so. There's an arch over a hallway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: ...In Sorrow And Disbelief | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...wouldn't want to blame self-proclaimed Antichrist superstar Marilyn Manson? Listen to Lunchbox, and get the creeps: "The big bully try to stick his finger in my chest/Try to tell me, tell me he's the best/But I don't really give a good goddamn cause/ I got my lunchbox and I'm armed real well.../Next motherf_____ gonna get my metal/...Pow pow pow." Not quite Stardust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Bang, You're Dead | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

MILWAUKEE--Milwaukee Brewers second baseman Fernando Vina will appeal a two-game suspension for putting a finger in umpire Mike Winters' face while arguing balls and strikes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vina's Gesture Costs Brewers | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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