Word: concerning
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...Cornell tests set off a flutter of concern not only for the survival of the monarchs--already threatened by logging in their winter roosts in the mountains west of Mexico City and by pesticides in their Cornbelt breeding grounds--but also over our increasing dependence on high-tech, genetically engineered food crops. "This is a heads-up," warns entomologist Fred Gould of North Carolina State University...
...think the changes are going to have very powerful implications, he says. "We're just beginning see how it went this year, and keep making changes. Improving the department has become an abiding interest and concern...
...That's a big concern for us," Walsh said. "Since the season has ended we've been practicing, but we're a team that's getting a little testy. We need to go out and play. But you can also look at it the other way and say it's good because we're rested...
...think the changes are going to have very powerful implications, he says. "We're just beginning see how it went this year, and keep making changes. Improving the department has become an abiding interest and concern...
...This is the first major sign that there is no such thing as a perfect clone," says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "There has always been concern that when you copy, what you get is no better, and maybe a little worse, than the original, as when you copy a document." These findings raise questions not only about what you get with the first copy, but also what you might get with copies of copies. There is no indication yet that Dolly will die prematurely -- the shortened telomeres may have lessened her cells' genetically-programmed maximum lifespan; however, this...