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...also, includes "the flora and fauna of Africa," Gates said...
...doctoral candidate at Tulane University, and many of his papers, including the manuscript for Confederacy, are on public display in the university archives. Toole grew up nearby, at 390 Audubon Street, and the surrounding Uptown neighborhood is one of New Orleans' flossiest. Beautiful Audubon Park is rich in native flora, including centuries-old live oaks, and the zoo will captivate family members too young to enjoy Toole or trees...
...Gardner Museum in unarguably one of the most enchanting sights in Boston. Fenway Court, the unassuming building in which Isabell Gardner's eclectic collection of mainly European art and design in housed, has an interior modeled after a fifteenth century Venetian Pallazzo, complete with a courtyard of overflowing flora and fountains and topped off with architectural fragments from around the world...
...read with horror your article about the terminator gene the Monsanto Corp. is developing to remove the ability of a plant's seeds to reproduce [ENVIRONMENT, Feb. 1]. Your statement that no "serious scientist" thinks dire forecasts of accidental widespread sterilization of natural flora will come to pass brings to mind many other past assertions. Weren't we told that DDT was a safe pesticide and that pouring tons of waste into our waters was a safe form of disposal? The only thing a "serious" scientist should be thinking today is that we really know very little about the long...
...hand, paying whatever the company demands before they can plant that season's crop. Worse still, some doomsday scenarios suggest, pollen from Terminator plants could drift with the wind like a toxic cloud, cross with ordinary crops or wild plants, and spread from species to species until flora all around the world had been suddenly and irreversibly sterilized...