Word: cleverness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lampoon and Demon, Satire V has officially joined the select group of unread, unfunny self-proclaimed "humor" magazines guaranteed to leave a bad taste in the collective mouth of the Harvard populace. This freshman posse considers themselves real smarties by reversing the Harvard motto "Veritas." Backwards word, real clever...
...Those clever wags from the Lampoon are up to their hilarious hijinks again...
While this arrangement makes sense for Monsanto, it works only if farmers honor it--something that's difficult to police in the U.S. and almost impossible in the developing world. Now, however, Monsanto hopes to enforce biologically what it can't enforce contractually. With the help of clever genes currently in development, future Monsanto crops may be designed with a new feature in mind: sterility. No sooner will the company's plants mature than the seeds they carry will lose the ability to reproduce...
...clever science isn't necessarily popular science, and Terminator has made a lot of enemies, particularly in the developing world. The USDA and Delta and Pine Land have filed Terminator patent applications in dozens of countries. In many of those countries farmers can't afford to buy top-of-the-line seeds every year and must rely on saving a portion of each crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts...
...posters, spells out "666." Even scarier, the Sybiline Oracles say the Antichrist will become a popular world leader who secretly harbors sympathy for the devil--a song I own on CD by both the Rolling Stones and Jane's Addiction. And a Polish website states he will be "wonderfully clever, talented and beautiful to look at." Eerie...