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After months of playing diplomatic chicken...
Most of the honorands arrived in Cambridge this week, and all stayed at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston, sources said. Last night, they dined in Memorial Hall chicken and seven jewels terrine and striped bass...
...indirectly support the junta maintain their near monopolies on items exempted from the blockade, such as cooking oil, rice and sugar -- and are profiting handsomely. The Brandts control the market in flour, which shot up from $43 to $50 a sack, and have a corner on the country's chicken industry. The Mevs family continues to add on to a fuel depot capable of holding 50 million gal. Their cement business is booming as black-market millionaires build new homes. The Madsens are doing big business in humanitarian food at their shipping terminal, and they own the country's main...
...available, more than 20 years ago. By mixing and matching bits of DNA -- cutting a gene from one kind of organism and pasting it into another -- they hoped to make new, improved plants and animals. Over the years they've put corn genes in rice, trout genes in catfish, chicken genes in potatoes, even firefly genes in tobacco (yielding a plant that actually glowed in the dark). A few years ago, Department of Agriculture researchers tried to produce leaner pork by splicing a human gene into a pig embryo. What they got was a cross-eyed porker with crippling arthritis...
Last meal: celery, olives, chicken, French fries, buttered peas, cherries, cake...