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...result of a heated race among chemical and bioengineering companies throughout the past decade to reap the environmental cachet that would come with the first "all natural" plastic. This week, Dow Cargill Polymer, a combined effort of Dow Chemical and Cargill Inc., prompted sighs in the Monsanto and DuPont boardrooms when it announced that it would be the first to bring PLA to your local grocery by sometime next year...
...Kelsos apparently lost it. The day after Christmas, they left their home in the Philadelphia suburb of Exton, Pa., and took Steven in his wheelchair, with his toys, diapers and medical supplies, to the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in nearby Wilmington, Del. They demanded that Steven, a frequent patient there for years, be admitted, and then, while the receptionist went to get a nurse, the two drove off, leaving their son behind with a note saying they could no longer care...
...Delbridge Rashid A.H. Delgado Matthew F. Delmont Roanak V. Desai D. Lawson DeVries Stefanie E. De Santis Joseph P. Di Pasquale Jennifer L. Diebel Ravi K. Dixit Chris-Tia E. Donaldson Elizabeth K. Dotson-Wesphalen Mara J. Dowdall Jesse S. Downs Chloe L. Drew Miriam E. Droller Alexandra B. duPont Brent W. Dusing Katherine D. Earls Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera...
...back, forming corporate alliances and launching a major p.r. effort that includes lobbying, new research efforts to still public fears and TV, radio and newspaper ads. It is also beginning to listen more. "To brush off concern [about g.m. crops] as unfounded is to be arrogant and reckless," says DuPont ceo Charles Holliday Jr. And even though it gave FrankenTony the cold shoulder, Kellogg's is already phasing out genetically modified products in Europe--not, it insists, for safety reasons but just to please consumers...
...next baked Idaho. After a run of bad press, biotech companies are taking the offensive to save face, not to mention profits, in a potentially explosive market. Friday's New York Times reports a surge of public relations maneuverings from a number of biotech giants, including Monsanto, Norvartiscoei and DuPont, to put a friendlier face on their modified- food crops here in the U.S. Opponents charge that by changing the makeup of foods to increase productivity or enhance favorable characteristics, the companies are forcing "Frankenstein" crops on the public. Biotech companies have been hush-hush about their products...