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The experiment, directed by Biologist Peter Carlson at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, involved two species of wild tobacco called Nicotiana glauca and Nicotiana langsdorffii. In the past, researchers have been able to crossbreed these two common plants by sexual means-fertilizing one plant with the pollen of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Potmato Plant? | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

In cattle breeding, the name of the game is to improve the strain. Thus ranchers think nothing of importing desirable cattle from halfway round the world to crossbreed with their own herds. In New Zealand, however, cattlemen recently ran afoul of the country's strict animal quarantine laws in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beating the Quarantine | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

No More DDT. Chief defoliator is the two-inch-long larva of the gypsy moth, a fuzzy brown caterpillar with blue and red spots that daily consumes one square foot of tree leaves (but not farm crops). Almost any kind of tree leaf from maple and pine to magnolia is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Plague of Moths | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

Migraine and Piety. To contemporaries-and to later observers, Richelieu himself was equally hard to comprehend. A crossbreed of the middle-class and the impoverished country gentry, he had social ambitions and possessed extraordinary charm. Yet he was without humor. He could play the guitar. He kept 14 cats. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cardinal's Virtues | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

More of the same can be expected for the daily, which has lost a lot of its old thunder, although circulation has increased 10% in the five months since it began putting news instead of agony ads on Page One. Hamilton plans to "crossbreed" his daily and Sunday staffs into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Thomson Takes the Times | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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