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Great Plains is now under the control of the DOE. Last week the department sent a team of investigators to inspect Great Plains and confer with plant managers. Some employees hoped the Government would find a way to keep the project running. Said Michael Mujadin, the operations director: "Once they see things for themselves, I'm confident the DOE will let us continue." But that may prove impossible if Congress decides to cut off synfuels funding...
Then, too, some of the plants may have as yet undiscovered characteristics important to agriculture: for example, resistance to disease or drought. Using new recombinant DNA techniques, scientists look forward to identifying the genes that confer these traits and transferring them from wild plants to crop plants. By preserving the endangered species, says Falk, "we're building a genetic library." Thibodeau considers the library essential "even if it turned out that these plants have no other identifiable value. They would still be worth saving, just as it is worth preserving old manuscripts...
...drunken malfeasance, thus effecting a double punishment—one at the university level, the other in the form of parental wrath. The threat of this retribution has caused many from Boston-area colleges to question BPD’s logic: why should someone’s student status confer upon them extra punishment? Young professionals’ parents aren’t notified of their drunken antics, yet they presumably exist and cause distress for their neighbors when parties turn wild...
Despite the higher incidence of carriage among those children who attended day-care facilities, Huang said she believes childcare facilities still confer a very great benefit to children...
...SHOULD THE E.U. BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE COUNTRIES LIKE UKRAINE AND BELARUS? I am ready to confer membership to Turkey, to Kazakhstan, to Morocco, and to everyone. The more countries, the better. HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE U.S.?E.U RELATIONS NOW? I really don't think the antagonism between Europe and the U.S. was as great as the headlines in some of your publications would suggest. We are moving in a positive direction...