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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biotechnology, a few cells--can give a foreign company the raw materials to mass-produce a profitable medicine or fertilizer or pesticide. The question has become more urgent over the past couple of decades because the richest sources of such natural products are tropical rain forests, which are generally found in impoverished Third World countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEEDS OF CONFLICT | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

What's going on in Siberia is the same thing that's occurring in the rain forests of South America and the fragile coral reefs of the Caribbean. These areas have all fallen prey to greed. If we continue exploiting the earth, we will bring about our own demise. NAGA YALLA Edgewater, New Jersey aol: NYalla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1995 | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...Rain started to fall; water dripped from the shards of glass. Thunder rumbled in the distance, and lightning cracked harshly down, illuminating the giant animals as they moved away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arts & Media: SHOW BUSINESS | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Whether it was the weather, which turned to a strong mixture of wind and rain after the injury, or Columbia's disruptive style, things went downhill for the Crimson over the last half hour...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: W. Soccer Tops Columbia, 4-1, Remaining Undefeated | 9/23/1995 | See Source »

...Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Shawshank Redemption"), both times losing to sentimental favorites: actors playing physically or mentally disabled characters (Daniel Day-Lewis in "My Left Foot" and Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump"). He will hopefully be nominated again for "Seven," but with his luck someone will release "Rain Man II" at Christmas and again deny him his due. Freeman's Detective Sommerset does not just pay lip service to being burned-out. His spirit is so heavy we can almost feel its weight. He lives in a world filled with ugliness, and when confronted with beauty, in the form...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: Being Bad Was Never So Thrilling: Different Crimes | 9/21/1995 | See Source »

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