Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your poll showed that 13% of Americans believe intelligent beings from other planets have been in contact with members of the U.S. government. I think the numbers would have been higher if you had asked people if they thought U.S. government officials were from another planet. Why would E.T.s want...
According to a TIME/Yankelovich poll, 34% of Americans believe intelligent beings from other planets have visited Earth; of those, 65% believe a UFO crash-landed near Roswell, and 80% believe the U.S. government knows more about extraterrestrials than it chooses to let on. But those numbers don't quite capture...
These works all have a very simple message at their heart: men and women are so different, they might as well come from different planets--and can't we all just get along? But it is a message with enough of a truthful core that it struck a popular nerve...
I don't mean to sound macabre/But, hey, isn't it my job/ To lay it on the masses/ And get them off their asses/ To fight against these fascists. --Digable Planets
Artists like Butterfly of Digable Planets, Vinny of Naughty by Nature, Mic Geronimo and the rapper Bahamadia are expected to attend the conference and lead a variety of panel discussions.