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...Wambugu, the flap in the U.S. and Europe over genetically engineered crops seems almost ludicrous. In Africa, she notes, nearly half the fruit and vegetable harvest is lost because it rots on the way to market. "If we had a transgenic banana that ripened more slowly," she says, "we could have 40% more bananas than now." Wambugu also dreams of getting access to herbicide-resistant crops. Says she: "We could liberate so many people if our crops were resistant to herbicides that we could then spray on the surrounding weeds. Weeding enslaves Africans; it keeps children from school...
...Although heavily skewed to the soundtrack of the baby-boom generation, the poll was not confined to rock 'n' roll, thus "Over the Rainbow" from "The Wizard of Oz" and "Strange Fruit," popularized by Billie Holiday, weigh in at number 3 and 7, respectively. Like most of the songs on the list, these are cultural phenomena as much as songs, and this applies as well to Motown and Bob Dylan, represented on the list by Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears' (5) and Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changing...
...Life - The Beatles 2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones 3. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland 4. Here, There And Everywhere - The Beatles 5. Tracks of My Tears - The Miracles 6. The Times, They Are A-Changing - Bob Dylan 7. Strange Fruit - Billie Holliday 8. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt 9. People Get Ready - The Impressions 10. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - The Righteous Brothers...
Venter first targeted the genome of an old laboratory favorite, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, whose genes have many counterparts in humans. By March he had succeeded in sequencing its genome--work that ultimately helped break down the barriers between Venter and Collins. The latter had implied all along that Venter could not be trusted to release gene sequences to the public, despite promises that he would. "This was a major frustration," said Venter last week. "Fundamentally, nobody believes you're going to release the data. Your integrity is constantly being challenged...
Gore and Bush pointed out that the first fruit of the merger will be a savings of $15.7 billion in presidential campaign costs this year. Part of the money will go to "getting-to-know-you" ads to be shown this summer during Sunday talk shows. The ads will show the Gore and Bush families at petting zoos...