Word: hybridization
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Until we develop a hybrid population like this, the fault system isn't going to work too well; but neither will any other method that has as yet been proposed...
...Turkey for the production of a huge new crop, to India, whose wheat harvest will leap 25% this year, and to Pakistan. If the winter rains are right, Pakistan will become self-sufficient in wheat next April for the first time. A new U.S. Department of Agriculture "doublecross" hybrid has made Kenya self-sufficient in corn. In Southeast Asia, the newly developed IR8 rice strain has been tested in Thailand, South Viet Nam, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines and in some cases increased the annual yield twentyfold. The world's food experts are taking heart, though the sense...
...continues to feel this urgency deeply because it has been the world's granary under the Food for Peace (now Food for Freedom) law, which since 1954 has exported $15 billion worth of food. Envisioned as a hybrid of humanitarianism, diplomacy and hard-nosed dumping of surplus crops, the overseas program by 1971 will require payments in dollars rather than soft currencies, and ostensibly will make nations push their own food supply. Meanwhile, laboratories continue to cultivate new ideas. The latest range from weeding row crops with flame throwers and laying asphalt hardpans for instant upland rice paddies...
...snappy 9-ft. "minicar" that would be about half as long as today's intermediate Chevrolets and Fords, create one-tenth of the pollution. Developed under a $299,995 HUD grant to the University of Pennsylvania with help from General Motors, the three-passenger, 100-mile-range "hybrid" could whiz along highways at 60 m.p.h. on a small gasoline engine, switch to a battery-powered electric motor for tooling around town...
...writer, or as one of the greatest Hispanic writers, is inadequate. While criticized for neglecting the national characteristics of Argentina, Borges addresses himself to universal concerns and achieves universal appeal. His South American background contributes to the amalgam of literatures and cultures of which Borges is the timeless, placeless hybrid...