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...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 a wildfire epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...
Gore's people should underestimate neither this dynamic nor the extent to which (contrary to stereotypes) their man has come to seem the candidate of the overbearing - big government, big unions, big minorities, big money, big Hollywood, big hype, and a million moms. The combination may work for Gore. But in a screwy way, George W. Bush may profit from a counterintuitive inclination of Americans to associate him with the little...
This event, like so much of Ellison's life these days, can be read two ways. On the one hand, it is a grand gesture: the donation by Oracle of 1,100 New Internet computers to the Dallas public-school system. But it is also a flagrant attempt to hype a pet project of his: the inexpensive network computer. This particular model is built and sold by NIC, a company partly owned by--who else?--Ellison. Later, on a CNN feed from a high school social-studies classroom against a backdrop of a few of the donated computers, Ellison will...
...Deftones are crowded into a small dressing room in the bowels of the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., waiting for a chance to live up to their own hype. They didn't create all the multimedia fuss, not directly. Nonetheless, their recently released CD White Pony (Maverick) has garnered an enormous amount of buzz, that curious, often unreliable mix of critical adulation, street anticipation and well-orchestrated marketing. White Pony is supposed to be the album that "breaks" Deftones and places it in a league with the hottest hard-rock bands of the day, acts like Limp Bizkit...
Moreno has a different take. "We already have freedom," he says. "We're able to make music and go around the world and play it. Anything else is a bonus." After the interview, Deftones takes the stage and more than lives up to the advance hype, pounding out some of its new songs, including the aching Change (in the House of Flies) with focused ferocity. It's the listeners who are getting the bonus...