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...Activist groups like Rural Advancement Foundation International are using the Net to rally Terminator opponents, urging them to flood the U.S. Department of Agriculture with letters of protest. At least 4,000 people from 62 countries have responded--an anti-Monsanto army raised by the electronic vox pop alone. "The group R.A.F.I. masterfully called this Terminator," says Gary Toenniessen, deputy director for agricultural science at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. "It's not what Monsanto would call...
...though an economic downturn might motivate us to start making a real mark on the world, it also introduces trouble on the horizon. And I'm not talking about the usual effects of a recession: the blow-dried reporters tromping through small-town cafes, trying to coerce a little vox out of the unemployed populi who glare suspiciously at them; nor am I alluding to eyeball-glazing newspaper business features led by headlines like, "Whither Textiles?" I'm referring to what happened the last time there was a burp in the economy, in the early 1990s: the transformation of harmless...
...instructed to lie about it. Lewinsky's attorneys resolved a dispute between a Washington, D.C., bookstore and investigators by agreeing to release information on her purchases -- Starr's team supposedly wants those records to determine whether she purchased a copy of Nicholson Baker's phone-sex bodice-ripper "Vox...
...their dazzling interpersonal chemistry (showcased to irresistible effect in the 1964 feature film A Hard Day's Night, which critic Andrew Sarris called "the Citizen Kane of jukebox movies"), their novel sound (produced on offbeat--to most Americans--Gretsch, Rickenbacker and Hofner guitars and cranked out through snarly little Vox amplifiers brought over from England) and of course their awesome facility for making ravishing hit records...
...Nicholson Baker's The Everlasting Story of Nory (Random House; 226 pages; $22) gets anywhere near a best-seller list, it will have something to do with the everlasting story of Monica, which by now would have been remaindered were it not for the everlasting investigation of Kenneth. Vox, Baker's 1992 best seller about phone sex, was rumored to have been a gift by Lewinsky to the President. Starr's effort to subpoena Washington-bookstore records had predictable results: the public was offended, and sales of Baker's alleged fly opener rose...