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...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 a wildfire epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...
...driven primarily by domestic political concerns, and it is quite conceivable that those might prompt this White House, or the next, to go ahead with the system despite the opposition of pretty much everyone else in the world. Then again, the system's poor performance and the growing clamor of scientific criticism may militate against rushing it into production. Either way, Putin's diplomatic offensive to create a consensus among traditionally divergent states may be a portent of things to come: Boris Yeltsin may have occasionally grumbled, but he mostly allowed the U.S. free rein to unilaterally shape the international...
Along East Sprague, where the clamor of freight trains punctuates the night and the Rainbow Tavern advertises "cold beer and hot women," a giant billboard remains standing. In large black letters it demands HELP US FIND OUR KILLER! above photographs--some smiling, some sullen--of Sherry, Shannon and Shawn, of Melody, Melinda and Michelyn, of Sunny, Heather, Laurie and Linda. The first three bodies turned up in 1990 along forested roadsides outside Spokane. Another was found two years later, then another...
...past year or so, I've watched 10 friends and acquaintances get engaged, married or divorced. And the role of the ring has fascinated me, in part because while the vast majority of American brides-to-be still clamor for a diamond, quite a few women I know wear bands encrusted with a variety of more interesting (and less controversial) stones like emeralds, rubies and opals. And in the eyes of our mothers and grandmothers, at least, that constitutes something of a revolution...
Indeed, as patients clamor for every new drug that's advertised on TV and every test they learn about on the Net, the price of medicine is getting stiffer, jumping an estimated 10% this year. For the moment, Aetna and others are passing along that added expense to employers and consumers, one of the primary reasons the sector has rebounded a bit on Wall Street. But as Merrill Lynch senior analyst Roberta Goodman points out, "that's like running up the down escalator--the trend is against you." And even though Donaldson produced better-than-expected earnings of $184 million...