Word: fruitness
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...part of a yuppie-ish Y2K-readiness group that meets once a month to discuss risks and learn self-reliance skills. The four couples who take part are learning how to roll their own oats for cereal, shop for paraffin lamps--those don't give off smoke--and preserve fruit. French coffee presses, they have discovered, are perfect for sprouting seeds. If Martha Stewart ran a survivalist sect, it might be something like this...
...getting genes into plants is to coat tiny particles of tungsten or gold with foreign DNA, then shoot the particles directly into plant cells. Either way, the plant's cells start to produce whatever proteins the new genes are designed to make. Immunization begins when the plant or its fruit is eaten, prompting the body to churn out the appropriate antibodies...
Here's some new colors for you: Strawberry, Lime, Blueberry, Tangerine and Grape (which the fruit-impaired might also recognize as red, green, blue, orange, and purple). Those are the shades the iMac will now come in--part of Apple's push to make the marketing of the personal computer less a matter of megahertz and more of design. To sweeten the pie, the company is cutting the price by a hundred bucks, and, in a bow to today's instant nostalgia, selling the remaining first-edition iMacs (you remember, with that Bondi blue case that's SO five minutes...
...hope is that Madeleine's bouquet of "countryside, woods, flowers and fruit," as Metro officials described it, will be more agreeable to commuters than the customary combination of industrial fumes and assorted human waste. That distinction apparently did not apply to Madeleine's precursor, Francine, an ill-fated odor that generated more complaints than praise when it was floated in the early 1990s. Five years in the making, Madeleine was designed to be "sweet rather than violent," a scent "that lingered for two weeks and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered...
...guides talking softly in Sranan Tongo, a lingua franca mixture of English, Dutch, Portuguese and West African languages, and by the chirping of frogs and birds. Insects make a sound like an endless marimba. There are showers of natural debris--rodents tossing away shells and bits of fruit. I am certain that I hear an animal poking around under my head. Mittermeier confesses that even after all his years of experience, he has never become accustomed to the night sounds...