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...instance, what scientists at the University of California at Davis are doing with the lowly tomato. They have developed a "square" tomato with a tough flat-sided skin that is ideal for both picking by machine and packing for shipment without bruising; it has become the standard tomato for canning. Now agrono mists are close to developing a tomato resistant to the salt that settles in irrigated fields or is blown onto cropland by sea breezes. One researcher quips: "I don't think we'll ever be satisfied until we've got a tomato that can be grown...
Other experts gave testimony supporting the "single bullet theory," that one bullet fired by Oswald hit both Kennedy and former Texas Governor John Connally. Engineer Tom Canning of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the two were so seated in the car that a trajectory traced from their bodies led to the sixth floor of the book depository, where investigators have established Oswald was perched with his rifle...
...explores opportunities for women in coal mining. Another part describes emerging small industries run by women, such as quilting cooperatives; only recently have these women begun to market and sell the region's traditional crafts and handwork. The book's food and nutrition section contains information on gardening and canning, familiar chores for most Appalachian women...
...entered into or ended entirely at our discretion. Americans never paid attention to British Foreign Secretary George Canning's justification of the Monroe Doctrine: "We have called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old." Shielded by two oceans and enriched by a bountiful nature, we proclaimed our special situation as universally valid, even for nations whose narrower margin of survival meant that their range of choices was far more limited than...
...their authoritarian system in concentrating vast resources upon narrow goals-defense and space, for example-but otherwise have built an economy that is preposterously inefficient and corrupt. Industrial plant directors bent upon fulfilling the Plan adulterate their products to increase quantity. Pills come out at half-strength. A canning engineer admits: "If we add less sugar to the jam, we can produce more canned goods and meet the Plan." Window panes are often made so thin that most are shattered before they can be installed in apartment complexes that begin losing bricks just after the tenants move in. (Jutting screens...