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...about a year now?ever since Potrykus and his chief collaborator, Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg in Germany, announced their achievement?their golden grain has illuminated an increasingly polarized public debate over genetically engineered crops. Last month Potrykus and Beyer arrived in the Philippines carrying golden rice seeds and genetic material bound for the International Research for Rice Institute, IRRI for short. The goal of IRRI scientists will be to develop a golden tropical rice, based on the techniques Potrykus has used for his temperate rice variety. And this is only the first step. Two private companies?Swiss...
...Rockefeller-sponsored meeting, Potrykus met the University of Freiburg's Peter Beyer, an expert on the beta-carotene pathway in daffodils. They decided to combine their expertise. In 1993, with some $100,000 in seed money from the Rockefeller Foundation, Potrykus and Beyer launched what turned into a seven-year, $2.6 million project, backed by the Swiss government and the European Union. "I was in a privileged situation," reflects Potrykus, "because I was able to operate without industrial support. Only in that situation can you think of giving away your work for free...
...Lisa Beyer...
...Lisa Beyer and senior foreign correspondent JOHANNA MCGEARY, both former Jerusalem bureau chiefs, wrote this week's cover stories. We sought interviews with both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but only Barak agreed, spending 20 minutes on the phone with Beyer on Saturday. Rees and his team have been out on the streets and into the many trouble spots to bring vivid accounts of the drama now unfolding. Cairo bureau chief SCOTT MACLEOD headed for the Gaza Strip, AMANY RADWAN monitored the Egyptian government's mediation efforts, Tehran stringer AZADEH MOAVENI kept watch on the volatile Lebanese border from Beirut...
...Saturday evening Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke to TIME senior writer Lisa Beyer by phone from his private residence in Kochav Yair, north of Tel Aviv...