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...sunny anymore. It's kind of pink and bright, but not sunny. But grunge was sunny. Remember Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" video? It had lots of sun. Cracker is the grunge band of sun, so sunny they're almost country...

Author: By Arts Eds, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

...recap: the costumes are grand, the sets are spectacular, the boys are pretty, the show is, well... But the subtext--ah, the subtext! In a series of deductive proofs that deconstruct this subtext, we find nirvana...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Proof is in the Pudding | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

Alternative music is dying. The vibrancy that marked the Nirvana of our middle-school years has turned into the recent commercial failure of bands like Bush. Alternative rock is now the domain of the hackneyed melding of hip-hop and rock. That is why Machina, the upcoming Smashing Pumpkins release, is so important: no less than these poster boys for traditional alternative rock could resurrect thoughtful angst from its midget-infested Kid Rock death spiral. In the meantime, the 1991-1998 compilation showcases the legacy the Pumpkins have left. The pretentiousness of Billy Corgan aside, songs like "Disarm" and "Tonight...

Author: By Jimmy Zha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: Smashing Pumpkins | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...1930s using current structural analysis of strains of AIDS virus. The researchers drafted a genealogy of HIV and extracted key building blocks of the virus from each strain. Following the assumption that the mutations in the virus occurred at a roughly consistent pace, scientists used their supercomputer - the Nirvana is capable of performing 1 trillion computations each second - to trace AIDS's evolution back to a single "starter" strain dating from around 1930. The team suspects that one person or a small group of people became infected with the virus through some kind of contact (a bite or accident) with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding New Roots of the AIDS Family Tree | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Bezos is beyond talking about his wealth or whether Amazon will be successful. Instead, he talks about a "nirvana" state of consumer service, in which you'll come to Amazon, and the one thing you've been looking for all your life will be featured on the page that day. You may not even know you've been looking for the thing or that it even exists, but since the site is so familiar with your consumption habits, it knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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