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...career in the sciences was pursued against the grain of a male, and sometimes unfriendly, academic community. And while she struggled to balance her academic passions with the burdening task of raising a family, she says her story should give hope to students with similar scientific ambitions...
...coordinate ground attacks and air strikes. Pentagon researchers are busy developing aviation assets even tinier than such mechanical sparrows. They're training honeybees, parasitic wasps and giant sphinx moths to detect land mines and caches of biological and chemical weapons. Outfitted with radio backpacks, each smaller than a grain of rice, the insects will pinpoint the location of such deadly weapons for destruction by U.S. forces...
...interconnected that it qualifies as a monoculture--that is, the sort of homogeneous ecosystem that makes as little sense in the business world as it does in the biological. Using Word, Excel and Outlook exclusively on Windows machines in a company network "is like planting Kansas with the same grain of wheat," says Bill Cheswick, a senior researcher at Lucent. When a virus preys on the crop, nothing is left standing. The companies hit hardest by the Love Bug were closed Microsoft shops. Users who had planted their PCs with a slightly more colorful selection of seeds--even just substituting...
...will eventually live, in the words of writer David Quammen, on a "planet of weeds." If that danger doesn't seem imminent, consider this: sprawl is paving over the land we need to grow our food. Since 1981 the amount of land around the world devoted to raising grain has fallen 7%. Increased agricultural productivity has made up for that loss, but the Green Revolution may be reaching the point of diminishing returns. In 1998 the world grain harvest declined 2% from the previous year, even as there were 1.4% more mouths to feed...
...Prince practices what he preaches, and a sign by the lane leading up to his Home Farm announces that YOU ARE ENTERING A GMO-FREE ZONE. Charles' philosophy is simply expressed. "We should," he says, be adopting a "gentler, more considered approach, seeking always to work with the grain of nature in making better, more sustainable use of what we have...