Word: homegrown
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...technology that the nine justices of the Supreme Court wrestled with last week was relatively crude: a heat-sensing gun pointed at a house in Florence, Ore., by federal agents on the lookout for homegrown marijuana. In 1992, a cop using the device had spotted a lot of excess heat coming off high-intensity grow lights. Police searched the house, found more than 100 plants and arrested one of its occupants--a small-time marijuana grower named Danny Kyllo. Kyllo appealed the case all the way to the highest court, arguing that by using infrared technology to pry into...
...such as Sohu, Netease and Sina to find powerful foreign partners of their own. Even as they cope with serious internal troubles, executives from Sina and Netease shared a table at the AOL-Legend celebratory banquet in Beijing, which struck some as a symbolic wake for China's early homegrown Internet businesses. Now all will be watching to see if this new venture can figure out what those ventures never could: how to make money...
...attention on potential weaknesses in the cancer cell, others are concentrating on the flip side?recruiting the body's immune system to seek and destroy the renegade tissues. So far, this approach has proved less successful, largely because no matter how badly they are misbehaving, tumor cells are purely homegrown and thus presumed innocent by the immune system. When it finally catches on that something is wrong, it's usually too late...
...attention on potential weaknesses in the cancer cell, others are concentrating on the flip side--recruiting the body's immune system to seek and destroy the renegade tissues. So far, this approach has proved less successful, largely because no matter how badly they are misbehaving, tumor cells are purely homegrown and thus presumed innocent by the immune system. When it finally catches on that something is wrong, it's usually too late...
...leads on the phantom accomplice known as John Doe No. 2. It was an extraordinary deal between prosecutors and the defense, this total disclosure of even marginal material; but it was designed to instill the greatest possible public confidence in the outcome of a trial of homegrown terror--an act staged in supposed retaliation for questionable acts by federal officials, like Waco and the Ruby Ridge shootings...