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Imagine a cow that produces skim milk, a canola seed rich in sperm-whale oil or a naturally decaffeinated coffee bean. Such curios may sound like science fiction, but they are real possibilities in the brave new world being created by the marriage of biotechnology and agriculture. In scores of experiments, scientists are changing the genetic endowments of plants and animals, and the results could spawn a revolution in farm fields, feedlots and dairy barns...
...gulf. Nearby are a number of formidable-looking destroyers and guided-missile cruisers, but they are outnumbered by a long row of decrepit submarines literally rusting away at dockside and good for little more than the cannibalization of parts. For years these vessels have figured in Western bean counters' assessments of the Red Menace. When forced upon the Soviet military, glasnost often reveals more waste and weakness than strength...
...fried Sichuan chicken is a good example. Chicken breasts are sauteed in a regular skillet, then drenched in a delicious sauce composed of the usual Chinese suspects: oyster, bean and hoisin sauces, sherry instead of Chinese wine, ginger, garlic, chili sauce and Sichuan peppercorns. Another of the charms of this book is the notion of serving these Oriental-style dishes along with Western foods, in this case with steamed carrots in parsley butter...
Similarly, Margaret H. Bean-Bayog '65, psychiatrist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, stayed at Harvard because the area was more progressive than her hometown...
...Bean-Bayog says that women at Radcliffe were "somewhat more protected then." Today, Bean-Bayog says she "feels protective of her students [at the Medical School] who are flooded with ideas and expected to perform [under immense pressure...