Word: california
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...back to China, Quan stopped in California to pick up some orange- tree saplings. "You know the Chinese were the first to grow orange trees," he says. "But like a good deal else that the Chinese invented first, they had forgotten how to do it." Today almost all the villages around Quan's 300-acre farm, which may be the largest private landholding in China, are growing oranges...
...California-based Packard Foundation has awarded grants of $500,000 each to Daniel J. Jacob and Cumrun Vafa for research in their respective specialties of atmospherics and theoretical physics. The Packard grants are the largest in the nation given exclusively to junior faculty in the sciences...
Each of the 50 schools participating in thePackard program named two candidates for thegrants and 20 winners were selected. The onlyother university to have both its nominees wingrants was the California Institute of Technology...
More than 88 percent of the first shipment was bought by colleges and their students, Bennett said. And students are forming waiting lists at Brown University in Rhode Island and the University of Southern California...
...criticism comes from both left and right. "To provide leadership, you can't just respond to circumstances, you have to create them," says Senator Alan Cranston, the liberal California Democrat and Foreign Relations Committee veteran. Frank Gaffney, director of the conservative Center for Security Policy, thinks that Baker "believes in success for its own sake and often finds specific goals inconvenient. That's not leadership or vision." Even Shevardnadze took a shot last week, complaining that "the restrained, indecisive position of the American Administration" has led to a "peculiar lull" in arms control...