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...Mix-A-Lot liked big butts, and he could not lie. AFROMAN likes marijuana, and he's not lying either. Afroman's tribute to pot, Because I Got High, from the soon-to-be-released album The Good Times, is the most requested track at countless radio stations around the country. Afroman--actually Joseph Foreman, 27--admits to smoking illegal substances occasionally. "But you know," he says, "my character, Afroman, he really does." Of course, it's a novelty hit and performance art. Afroman had no idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 20, 2001 | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

This summer TIME embarked on an ambitious odyssey to the once powerful spice islands, sultanates and trading ports visited by Chinese Admiral Zheng He in the 15th century. Our team explores the color and chaos that characterize those ports today -- and the mix of peoples and cultures that have shaped them for 600 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIAN VOYAGE: Setting Sail with the Admiral | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...songs by 15 bands on this album offhandedly mix genres that until recently were oil and water: pop, punk, rap and heavy metal. This practice has become as de rigeur as nipple rings for bands over the last couple years, but it's easy to forget how alien it was to audiences of the recent past. Throughout the bulk of the '90s, the perceived incompatibility of these genres was more than musical; it was subcultural. The cheerleader listened to pop, the wannabe-street kid listened to rap, the aspiring Sundance auteur with the sideways haircut listened to punk. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home in the Crowd | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...what vacation means - i.e., having fun and not working), the image-makers hit upon a clever idea. Every week, they decided, they would send the President somewhere outside Texas for a day or a day and a half to hold an event of some kind in which he would mix with "real Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vacationing Bush Works Hard for His Photo-Ops | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...Russians, the price of freedom has been a poverty unknown even amid the drudgery of communism at its wheezy end, for the wider world it has ushered in a mix of the promise (and perils) of a truly global capitalist economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainty. It seemed safe to assume, a decade ago, that the end of a conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prospects and Perils of a Post-Soviet World | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

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