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That chapter began in the bloody 1930s when Lysenko, a young plant breeder from the Ukraine, burst onto the Soviet scientific scene with a beguiling claim: that the inheritance of physical characteristics could be manipulated in plants by their environment. It was an idea totally at odds with modern genetics, which holds that an organism's basic color or shape, say, is passed from one generation to the next by the genes with inflexible regularity (except when they are mutated). But the theory was highly compelling to Stalin; he had become increasingly annoyed at the failure of conventional agricultural...
Chishold, an energy conservation researcher, said the fast-breeder reactor will not be an acceptable alternative to conventional reactors...
...Breeder Reactor Questioned...
...greatest virtue is its biggest problem," he said, adding that the breeder makes more nuclear fuel than it can use, creating a stockpile of dangerous radioactive material...
...information on a land-sales fraud. Now Bolles' colleagues of the IRE (Investigative Reporters and Editors Association) will try to pick up where he left off. "We're not here to catch Don Bolles' killer," says Michael Wendland of the Detroit News. (A local race-dog breeder goes on trial for the murder next week.) "We know something is very, very rotten in the state of Arizona, and we want to find out how it got that...