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...Chances are, though, that won't be you. You will be the krazy kat kutting it up on the dance floor. Or the girl who sheds her nude hose and kisses a boy for the first time. Or the kid who knocks over the cheese puff table. Or the wallflower. One of many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Foible? | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...know anyone who didn't get lotteried out? If we must, we'll huff and we'll puff and we'll blow the door down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...that sounds a tad over the top, it's because these are heady times for hip-hop, and no one has done more to lead it to the promised land of mainstream acclaim than the man called Puff Daddy. Whether it be the Hamptons polo match he played host to last year or his coronation-like 29th birthday bash thronged by well-wishers from Muhammad Ali to Martha Stewart, Combs has planted hip-hop's flag in places undreamed of a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation: Sean Puffy Combs | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Combs had become so rebellious and impatient that Harrell fired him. "He was hot tempered, very passionate, very creative," says Harrell, who now is a consultant to Bad Boy. "But Puff was like Dennis the Menace. Every now and then something would get broken." (Combs' huffing and puffing earned him his nickname.) When Combs exited Uptown, Arista's Clive Davis stepped in and gave him another chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hip-Hop Nation: Sean Puffy Combs | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...make it easy. Many crops, like rice, are mostly self-pollinated. As for crops that are pollinated by wind or insects, precautions like planting border fields to keep crops isolated help confine genes. What's more, crops tend to mature at the same time--sending out a great puff of pollen all at once--while wild plants reproduce over a longer period. During the brief time Terminator pollen is in the air, relatively few wild plants would notice. "The concern over widespread escape is overblown," insists Toenniessen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suicide Seeds | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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