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PARIS, FRANCE The Champs Elysees At midnight, 24 giant Ferris wheels, one like a snowball, will turn --Free --1 million expected...
...explains, the proteins produced by new genes are in a sense additives as well--"and while food manufacturers intend food additives to be safe, every now and then they screw up." Even more likely, food producers will respond to the changing public mood by labeling their products as g.m.-free, a trend already evident in Europe...
...This enthusiasm was both his greatest strength and perhaps his fatal flaw. If on the job he channeled that eagerness into getting a client interested in a new script or a studio in a project, in treatment he pumped his fist about how great it felt to be drug free. He was always, consummately, in the moment. And for him, there had been some pretty hairy moments. He had begun doing cocaine about six months before, and in a pattern familiar to most addicts had gradually been increasing his consumption until he was ingesting nearly fatal doses. Desperate to stop...
Next I tried Callwave, a "free" service that--big surprise--isn't. Like all the other software-only services, it requires you to sign up for a little-known option provided by most local phone companies called call forward on busy. This means that if your phone is busy, an incoming call is automatically forwarded to another number--for $1 to $3 a month, plus a one-time activation fee. (In Manhattan it's $16 plus $1.60 a month--hardly free.) With Callwave, callers are forwarded to an 800 number that plays a canned greeting telling people you're online...
...unique. Midnite's songs explode in burbles of electronic noise and brassy horn-section blasts; the lyrics alternate between absurdist imagery and street jokiness. Beck isn't afraid to fail, and he sometimes does. But while other rock-hoppers adhere to a "keep it real" doctrine, Beck feels free to invent his own playful lyrical reality: "I wanna get with you/ Only you/ And your sister/ I think her name's Debra," he sings in the soul-ballad Debra. This is smart music with a smile...