Word: ecologist
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...first genetically altered food crop, the "FlavrSavr" tomato, there are all manner of brave new foods on the way: beans and grains with more protein, caffeine-less coffee beans, strawberries packed with more natural sugars, and potatoes that soak up less fat during frying. At last count, says plant ecologist Allison Snow of Ohio State University, field trials have been conducted for some 50 gene-spliced food plants, including squash, melons, carrots, onions, peppers, apples and papayas...
...grounded in a unified philosophy that--in demonstrable and practical ways--is changing the design of the world. McDonough empathizes with birds because he's a rare one himself, a visionary--half green, half pink--who talks like a communist, thinks like a plutocrat and acts like an ecologist. Indeed, the three points of his abstractly designed universe (he is given to drawing incomprehensible diagrams on any available surface) reflect that people who used to be impelled to make things by the old impulses of social and economic interests now must add the environment...
...Southeast Asia in recent weeks, and they are still expected in Mexico, but any relief is likely to be temporary, and dryer conditions will return later in the year. Experts are particularly worried about Brazil, where a new dry season is just starting. Daniel Nepstad, a tropical-forest ecologist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, notes that "the eastern Amazon is teetering on the edge." The region has received one-fifth of its normal rainfall in the past year, and Nepstad says an area 20 times the size of Massachusetts is at risk...
...least two areas of the park, opening up ecological breathing room for foxes and other species. Even highland vegetation, no longer chewed up by hungry elk, is expected to start making a comeback. "We're seeing beneficial effects from the top down," says Robert Crabtree, a wildlife ecologist. "Who knows how far it will...
...Fifth Republic in 1958, winning only 29.9 percent of the vote, with 6.5 percent taken by independent rightist parties. The opposition Left, meanwhile, won 40.6 percent of the popular vote, among which 23.7 percent was for the Socialists, 10 percent for the Communists and 6.9 percent for ecologist parties. French financial markets tumbled and the franc slipped Monday morning on the fear that a victorious Left could scale down Juppe's recent economic reforms and plans to privatize the majority of France's government-controlled companies. The run-off vote is needed because in a majority of the 577 legislative...