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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tastefully decline, choosing not to contribute to a culture in which everything is for sale and ads are scrawled on every inch of space that isn't part of someone's forehead. But what if they paid you enough to wipe out your car payment? Or if the ad were for something cool, like a dotcom? You're a red-blooded American. For the right price, of course you'd sell out. So in case you were wondering, the line forms at Autowraps.com and 23,000 people got there ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Wrap Your Car in an Ad for $400? | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

...Blind auditions] are designed to try to wipe out all other factors than just sound," she says...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Gives you an Edge? Meritocracy's Last Stand | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

Gone are the impossible-to-follow plot twists of the first Mission: Impossible. This is a simple story of a guy, a girl, the bad guys and a plot to wipe out humanity while making a killing in biotech stock. Scottish actor Dougray Scott, who last broke hearts in Ever After, turns up as bio-villain Sean Ambrose. Ving Rhames reprises his role as Cruise's computer sidekick, Luther Stickell, and Anthony Hopkins makes an unbilled--and deliciously despicable--appearance as Cruise's boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thandie Makes It Possible | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

Similarly, if a guard getting paid $4 million a year gets his dunk swatted by Dikembe Mutombo every time, I doubt he'll cry about Mutombo's taunting finger-wag later that night. If he does cry, he can wipe his tears with hundred dollar bills...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bell Curve: Boo, Don't Ban | 5/26/2000 | See Source »

...FRANKENFOOD MONITORS Not sure what's for dinner? With a little genetic tinkering, fast-growing fish and freeze-resistant fruits will help feed an overpopulated planet, but such hybrids could unwittingly wipe out the food chain. Eco-scouts will be on the lookout for so-called Trojan gene effects, and bounty hunters will help the USDA eliminate transgenic species that get out of hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be the 10 Hottest Jobs? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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