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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says Nancy. "At one point, I was taking 15 pills in the morning and 15 in the evening. I wound up burying my medication in the backyard. I didn't want to take it anymore." Then Nancy was tested for allergies, a process that required her to be medication free. "It was like the sky was blue again," says Nancy, who at 18 is still off drugs but sees a counselor occasionally. "The colors came back. It was a total change from the medication stupor. Everything wasn't peachy, but I was able to appreciate doing things again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escaping From The Darkness | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

Viewing the new crops as useful alternatives to pesticides, most scientists want work on them to continue, if more cautiously. The message from the monarchs, meanwhile, is that even the most well-intentioned biotechnologies are not risk-free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Corn and Butterflies | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...around the lower leg, and part of the skate dug into my inner ankle. I had another pal, Jillian, test them in her size, and her foot got so badly chafed that she had to wear Band-Aids the next day. "You couldn't give these to me for free," Jillian said, somewhat redundantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Wheels | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

Neither product is calorie free: both contain mostly polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats. So if you eat too much, you'll be sure to gain weight, which can raise your cholesterol levels all by itself. Nor will the spreads do you any good if you spend all your waking hours in front of a television or computer screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Sure Ain't Butter | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...high you get on him depends on your cultural expectations. Polke has influenced a slew of younger American painters, and been hailed as the man who set painting in the '80s free--as if it had been languishing in bondage before!--by reviving, once more, the spirit of Dada that breathed through such movements as the Fluxus group in the '60s. He's the arch-trickster, mocking all art styles, sending up the dreaded Canon. (The fact that no work of art by a famous artist these days can safely be considered really and truly outside the Canon seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mocker of All Styles | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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