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News for the week of 12.18.06 - 12.24.06
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Dec 23, 2006
Better living through genetics
from the High Planes Drifter dept.
Soldiers trying to seize control of one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be cultivated year-round and cannot be killed with herbicides. Soldiers fanned out across some of the new fields Tuesday, pulling up plants by the root and burning them, as helicopter gunships clattered overhead to give them cover from a raging drug war in the western state of Michoacan. The plants' roots survive if they are doused with herbicide, said army Gen. Manuel Garcia.
posted by al at 02:36:03 AM | More Print News »
Dec 21, 2006
Hick Hop - A Blending of Rap and Traditional Mountain Music
from the Appalachian Culture dept.
The current generation of Appalachian youth has long had a fascination with Rap Music. I noticed this 20 years ago when I'd drive through a Walmart paking lot back in the hills of Kentucky. I found it rather odd that in an area where the black population only accounts for about 5% of the total and the Latino population is even less, that this genre would be so strongly embraced. Today a scene is emerging that offers a unique blend of two widely divergent cultures, while somehow remaining true to both.
posted by hillbillynation at 06:07:42 PM | More Music News »
Dec 19, 2006
Jimi Hendrix Rights Feud
from the Hendrix dept.
Dragonslayer Films meeting with resistance in effort to make Hendrix Bio.
