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...beat box of Philadelphia's legendary Roots crew. Fresh off the release of his millennial album, Make the Music 2000, Rahzel's performance made modern technology, and DJs like Mike, look purely superfluous. Who needs turntables, after all, when you've got someone who can loop James Brown and scratch KRS-One's "Step Into a World" with his mouth and a microphone? And why limit yourself to music? In addition to crowd pandering chants like "Where my weed smokers at?" Rahzel's act was punctuated with electronica-mimicking interludes (many of which are on the album...
...unimpressive. Much to the dismay of the assembled mass, he stayed clear of Beastie Boys standards, opting instead for more obscure tracks that pleased the crowd at the back of the room, Boston MCs Akrobatik and Mr. Liff among them. Mike's hyperactive mix-and-scratch made things more difficult, allowing for little more time than "Oh I've heard that" before moving on to the next record...
...three-hour video collage of scenes from the Columbine shooting set to Generation X warblings would seem to be nothing short of tasteless. The move, just the latest in a series of public relations gaffes, has sparked such a fast and seemingly predictable public backlash that one can only scratch one's head and ask, "What were they thinking...
...Mother Nature has been creating weird and wonderful chemicals for more than 3 billion years, and we're only beginning to sift through these hidden treasures. New technologies enable us to find, analyze and manipulate molecules as never before. While today's laboratory scientists can synthesize new molecules from scratch at a pace unimaginable just a few decades back, promising compounds produced by nature's most creative creatures increasingly provide the optimum starting points...
...would Microsoft consider ditching its crown jewels and starting from scratch with a simpler operating system? Never. "Two words: Windows survives," says senior strategist Craig Mundie. The company expects us to continue buying PCs alongside our handy little mobile Net appliances. But it's also throwing buckets of money at research to make existing versions of Windows better, lighter and cheaper. Meanwhile, its hardware partners are planning a stream of funky little gadgets to seed with Microsoft's DNA. If Mundie has his way, "powered by Windows" will become the selling point for the '00s that "Intel inside...