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...make Americans a bit more comfortable in the presence of so-called "Frankenfoods." The proposed changes will establish government oversight with regard to labeling foods made with genetically altered crops (including an industry-opposed measure to label products as GM-free); allow the Food and Drug Administration a four-month lead time to test new products for safety before they're introduced into the market; and create a uniform testing procedure for every food product containing modified materials...
...sport provokes as much hackneyed philosophy as baseball. Today is Opening Day in North America, and as we celebrate the return of the National Pastime from its four-month hibernation, the game's romantics are busy again, telling us how the sport is a parable for life in too many ways to count. Baseball is also supposed to be something uniquely American, right up there with apple pie in the pantheon of the national iconography. Stadiums will be draped with patriotic red, white and blue bunting today; state leaders and mayors will throw out the first pitch; country music stars...
...more mature, braid-free hairstyle. "I knew when Chris from Kid 'N Play said to get rid of the braids that it was time to change," he says. The band is pushing its new album, No Strings Attached, which is due to be released this week after a four-month delay caused by a $150 million lawsuit filed by Louis J. Pearlman--the Svengali who put together 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys and LFO--after 'N Sync tried to leave him. They settled out of court, and the band signed with Jive Records, also the new home of the Backstreet...
...most heavily hyped chess match of 1999: Garry Kasparov vs. The World ? which ended Monday in disappointment, cries of foul play and extraordinary mea culpas from Microsoft, the event's sponsor. The match started in June with the premise of pitting the planet's top player in a four-month match against a global army of Internet users. Kasparov's moves were posted on the Microsoft site zone.com; surfers voted on the countermove based on the recommendations of a panel of experts, and the most popular move was used...
...affectionately dubbed "the ass map," with a duffell bag filled with grenade rigged nerf footballs. Denied any of the war's action, these four soldiers enthusiastically seek their last chance to blow things up, now that the war is officially over. Russell goes out of his way to emphasize that his heroes are reserve soldiers; they read like a random cross sampling of American life. Chief (Ice Cube) is described as "on a paid four-month vacation" from his job as a baggage handler at the Detroit Airport. Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze), is a boyish, impetuous redneck, and Troy Barlow...