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...vocalist. After all, how many rock bands can you name that don't have a singer? In keeping with this idea of unconventionality, the band somehow managed to play a sterling, albeit too-short, set and escape the stage without uttering a single word. This disrespect for the traditional protocol of the rock band concert goes a long way towards explaining why Death In Vegas' music, both recorded and live, is as good as it is: the band just doesn't care what you think and is all the better...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love and Death in Vegas | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...fights, but McCain never says Hollings is evil," says a Democratic committee staff member. "In fact, he says Hollings is an honorable debater." McCain always shows deference to the longer-serving Hollings by going to his office for meetings. On occasions when McCain leaves committee hearings, he breaks Senate protocol and hands his gavel to his Democratic counterpart rather than the Republican next in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: In This Corner... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...develop technologies to deal with excess carbon--some scientists talk about removing it from smokestacks and stashing it underground--but the most direct way to control carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not to put it there in the first place. This is the point of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol--signed by 84 nations but not ratified by the U.S. Senate--which would limit developed countries' carbon emissions from cars, power plants and other major users of fossil fuels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hot Will It Get? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Consider using our patented Organic Enhancement protocol to provide your child with all-natural resistance to heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, stroke and eight different forms of cancer, as well as absolute protection against aids, allergies, asthma and Alzheimer's disease. But keep in mind, you must act before you get pregnant. Don't be sorry after she's born. This really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for your child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Make My Kid Smarter? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...TREATY] Kyoto Protocol [GENERAL PURPOSE] To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions [OTHER HOLDOUTS] China, India, Mexico, Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Treatyment | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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