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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better world that Purdy fondly hopes for is based in part on the world his parents gave him. His father Wally was raised a farmer, but when the family's ancestral acreage was taken to help expand the Pittsburgh, Pa., airport, Wally dropped out of mainstream agriculture and moved with his wife Deirdre, a graduate student in philosophy and a restless child of Delaware suburbia, to the West Virginia hamlet of Chloe. Alongside what Purdy estimates were a few hundred other local neohomesteaders, the family grew its own tomatoes, slaughtered its own cattle, and kept in touch with the wider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Optimist In a Jaded Age | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...large "mainstream" firms such as Proctor & Gamble, Salzberg says going to Harvard almost always boosts a candidate's chances at getting hired...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting Harvard on the Map | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Native American body-suspension ceremony. Musafar started a California state-licensed branding school in 1992 and has spread his philosophy through a website and a quarterly magazine called Body Play. He claims that branding is now administered by some 50 people in the Western world and could hit the mainstream in the way piercing did a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brand New Bodies | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...could have been seen as a sellout: the mainstream press suddenly embraced Rock as a tough-talking truth teller, unafraid to critique his own race. Says hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, an early fan of Rock's: "The white media chose pieces of Rock's performance that made them feel comfortable, and they wrote about it and they loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...minority communities swell, no doubt more conversations on the national stage will take place without reference to whites, as darker Americans bounce to hip-hop and live la vida loca without caring how it affects their image in the eyes of the white community. "Now [members of the mainstream media] have to live with [Rock] even though he makes them uncomfortable," chuckles Simmons. "And I think that's fabulous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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