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...organization called Dor Yeshorim, Hebrew for "generation of the righteous," has become an integral part of the community. Dor Yeshorim runs DNA tests on single men and women, and keeps a database of their potential children's susceptibility to certain genetic diseases...

Author: By Arvind M. Krishnamurthy, | Title: Listening to DNA | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

...mind, and yer rearend will do th'followin'. Follow follow follow yer ass will follow and what a fine FAT ASS it is and BREAK to nineteen hundred and ninety-three disco is dead but now so is punk rock and glam rock and pop rock and self-righteous rock and freedom rock and even grunge rock. Memories are short, dreams die hard and here it comes FIVE CDs urging and perturbing that you GOT to make it FUNKY...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...Costner), a "criminal's criminal," has broken out of jail along with Terry (Keith Szarabajka), a garden-variety psychopath. The convicts terrorize a mother and her children and take seven-year-old Phillip (T.J. Lowther) hostage. Tracking their flight is a Texas Ranger posse led by Eastwood, your basic righteous cowboy emeritus, and sparked by Laura Dern, a Governor's aide who brings feminist compassion and common sense to the pursuit. Bad guys, good guys, vroom-vroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haynes! Come Back, Haynes! | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...Carlito needs more than a good woman to avoid recidivism. He needs Pat O'Brien. You remember Pat O'Brien, Cagney's superego, trying to keep his wayward pal on a righteous path. What Carlito has instead is his friend and shyster lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn, in a terrific performance). He is in too far with the Mob, and he needs Carlito's muscular help in a cockamamie plan to avoid gangland's vengeance. It goes awry, naturally, and Carlito's subsequent flight brings out the best in De Palma -- breathless, bravura moviemaking, intricately designed, but playing like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gangsta Rapping | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...feel the need to preach your knowledge to the world, civilization will probably survive that too. The result will be a civilization that ought to feel a little bit more shame, that--after years of struggle to gain the right ti question and learn--a boy so self-righteous and arrogant could think himself worthy of being call a 'true' man. David A. Smith

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Civilization's Real Shame Is Arrogant Intolerance | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

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