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Houston-based Aurora Greenway, 49, is a transplanted New Englander and an AstroTurf widow. On the rebound from 24 years of marriage to the pallid Rudyard ("A plant could not have been easier to relate to, or less exciting"), Aurora gaily assembles and mistreats a colorful retinue of suitors including a retired general, an Italian tenor and a bashful oil millionaire who lives in his white Lincoln. She views their constant proposals of marriage skeptically. "Men have never distinguished themselves for sexual fidelity," she says. "The poor things have short attention spans...
...scoreboards) and two dozen lawsuits aimed at stopping construction altogether. The windowless building, sheathed in gold, anodized aluminum, boasts 75,000 sq. yds. of carpeting and contains 9,000 tons of computerized air conditioning and heating equipment; its energy costs are estimated at $1,752,000 a year. Its AstroTurf surface is known fondly as Mardi Grass...
...landmark agreement was one for an astounding $23 million in funds from the Monsanto Company, the St. Louis Mo., corporation that makes various chemical-related products, its most famous one being Astroturf...
...first came with two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning and a man on first. Northeastern's Ted Whitehouse laced a clean single to right field that then bounced past Joe Sciolla on the treacherous and unfamiliar astroturf in produce the Huskies' first...
...unfortunate shift--even if only because it is blatantly acknowledged--from present policy here. The research Monsanto is funding here appears to be aimed toward cancel related treatments, and it is disturbing that such important treatments will be packaged and marketed by the same company that gave the world Astroturf, Administrators say they entered into the deal with Monsanto in order to get the most public good out of the products of Harvard research, but it's hard to believe that Monsanto will operate on the principle of distributing the greatest good to the greatest number...