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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It’s exactly that “I just fell off the turnip-truck” mentality that makes the University treat us with great aplomb in front of our faces and great hilarity behind our backs at Faculty Club shindigs...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: The Un-Victory | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

...Daisy (formerly Inspector Turnip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet-icularly Suitable | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...most states have their own definitions; 19 don't have any rules at all - the U.S. Agriculture Department finally knows what it isn't: Anything that's been genetically modified, irradiated or grown in the sewage sludge that is sometimes used as fertilizer. Mostly, anyway. Raw, straight-off-the-turnip-truck foods have to be 100 percent "organic" to get the designation; processed foods can be as little as 50 percent organic and still receive a "made with organic ingredients" label. The decision comes two years after bushels of protest letters flooded the farm bureaucracy when it at first proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feds Now Firm on What's Organic | 3/5/2000 | See Source »

...mayhem on one another and the house: "Leave the squirrel alone and get the fire extinguisher!" we hear in one scene. Supporting Muniz is a crack cast, especially Jane Kaczmarek as Lois and Erik Per Sullivan as littlest brother Dewey, an amiable first-grader with the brain of a turnip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainiacs and Maniacs | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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