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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope its slide stops before it moves into competition with the likes of "Tic-Tac-Dough" and "Supermarket Sweep...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: BECOMING WINK MARTINDALE | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Without the chemicals and pruning, the fruit would not resemble the grapes you see in the supermarket...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Non-Unionized Farms Not Exploitative, Says Grape Grower | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...their theory to the test, researchers took over the wine shelves in a local supermarket. They displayed four French and four German wines "matched for their price and dryness or sweetness," indicating the origin of each vintage with a French or German flag. For two weeks, from a tape deck on an upper shelf, they played their own homemade Muzak, alternating days of French accordion and German beer-hall music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAYS OF WINE AND MUZAK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...claims, consumers are also at risk. According to a 1992 study by the General Accounting Office, cited by the UFW, grapes are sprayed with 75 different kinds of pesticides--one-third of which are known to be carcinogenic--and between 20 and 50 percent of the grapes on supermarket shelves retained pesticide residues...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Through the Grapevine | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

...evolution. There are modules for stereo vision and manual dexterity, for understanding numbers and grammatical speech, for sexual jealousy and romantic love. Don't think of them as "detachable, snap-in components," he cautions. They're not visible to the naked eye "like the rump steak on the supermarket cow display." A mental module, he says, "probably looks more like roadkill, sprawling messily over the bulges and crevasses of the brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEVEN PINKER: EVOLUTIONARY POP STAR | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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