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...Fatal Repulsion." In Andy Anderson's minimalist revenge drama Positive I.D., a Texas real estate agent (Stephanie Rascoe) is raped. When she learns that the rapist is up for parole, she devises a second identity for herself, that of a good-time gal named Bobbie, and hangs out at a bar owned by the rapist's uncle. She soon sees that Bobbie is a more suitable, rewarding part than the quiet housewife she has been playing for too many years. She might be Fatal Attraction's Beth, now cosseted and corseted by marriage, who'd rather be a free...
...billions of Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria on winter wheat seeds during planting. It should be easy enough to tell whether the invisible microorganisms survive and spread: the Pseudomonas bacteria have been altered by genetic engineers to turn a brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered organism in the soil offers a tremendous opportunity. I think this is going to be a breakthrough." Says Jane Rissler, of the Environmental Protection Agency's office...
Monsanto scientists responded by changing the site to South Carolina and reformulating their strategy. Instead of using bacteria with the insecticide- producing gene, the company applied to release a strain engineered only to produce enzymes that enable it to digest lactose and X-Gal. Researchers could then detect the presence of migrating bacteria by dropping soil samples onto the lactose-based, X-Gal-laced growth medium...
...could also reduce the trade gap by discouraging demand for imported oil. A tax of $5 per bbl. on annual U.S. imports of some 1.5 billion bbl. of foreign crude would raise approximately $7.5 billion in extra revenues. An alternative is a gasoline tax of 5 cents per gal. in addition to the current 9 cents federal levy, which would produce an extra $5 billion or so (1986 U.S. consumption: 112 billion gal.). Though energy taxes tend to be regressive, citizens in low-income brackets could receive offsetting credits on their income tax returns...
...midnight coup was not the first event to disturb Aquino's sleep last week. Two days earlier the President provoked a general strike by leftist and conservative trade unions, angry over a recently announced hike in gasoline prices, from $1.24 to $1.49 per gal. In a country where the average annual income is barely $600 a year, the increase was stunning. Though Aquino finally declared a partial rollback of the hike, thousands of Filipinos walked off their jobs and out of their classrooms in the largest show of protest since Aquino assumed the presidency. After the strike went into...