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...know the cereal you had for breakfast is genetically modified? Those corn flakes just aren't natural. The thing is, no corn that we would recognize is in a strict sense natural. Corn started off as a small grassy plant with an inch-long fruit. Native-Americans and later, mid-western farmers manipulated the plant's genetic code to increase the size of the fruit and make the plant more hardy. These genetic modifications, of course, happened before any understanding...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: The Myth of Frankenfoods | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

Throughout the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, these and many other poets flooded New York City to form the community that may rightly be called America's last avant-garde. Decidedly unconventional and anti-academic, they stapled together 8 1/2 inch by 11 copies of their own poems in dingy church basements, distributed them to a small group of subscribers or friends, or published in magazines with names like Lines or Fuck You: A Magazine for the Arts. It was cheap, efficient, bohemian and fun. But these once unknown writers have come a long way since then. Random House...

Author: By Matt Sussman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Note on Poetry: John Ashbery Revisited | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

Work during this off-season, Margo. I have faith that you'll develop the necessary five-inch vertical leap to make this happen. You can change the game. You have the power to save the WNBA...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carol of the Bells: Stop Faking the Funk | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...first commercial, we were all fed up with the fuzzy picture and crackled sound of our seventeen-inch screen. We entered the Straus common room, and found ourselves amongst a large group of first-years. This prime episode had attracted Harvard students from across the yard--by my estimation a larger group than had assembled for both Game 5 of the World Series and the presidential election returns...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Everybody Can Eat My Shorts Together | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

Such an advancement would inch Tucker towards his dream of enhancing UMass's environment while providing an educational opportunity to the greater Boston community. The artwork adds a humanistic element to the bland, monochromatic buildings of the UMass campus. More importantly, Arts on the Point seeks to bring challenging art to a population that might not otherwise encounter it. "I'm excited to be a part of a project that would place major works of contemporary sculpture in a very public setting where the population, by and large, would not ordinarily be exposed to it," says Gould. She recognizes that...

Author: By Selin Tuysuzoglu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arts on the Point of...? | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

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