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...just lousy. They never had any intention of feeding humanity." Yet Mahoney, chief of Monsanto Co.'s agricultural products division, and other plant biologists around the globe are all too aware that the world's burgeoning population is ultimately dependent on plants for food. Their solution: to lend nature a hand by 1) finding or creating new plants that yield more food faster, harvest easier and better resist insects, diseases and climatic extremes or 2) by manipulating existing plants into more efficient food production...
...that began during the recession. The prime rate charged by banks to their most credit-worthy customers has dropped from a sky-high 12% in mid-1974 to 6¾% now. Yields on high-quality corporate bonds have held almost unchanged, and those on "federal funds" -money that banks lend overnight to each other-are less than half the almost 13% of two years...
...self-starting and fertilizes grass while cutting it. Anette van Dorp, 22, an enterprising agriculture student in Bonn, West Germany, concluded last year that such a machine already exists-only it is called a sheep. So she persuaded her mother Doris, the wife of a prosperous architect, to lend her $15,700, and last spring set up an ewe business named Gesellschaft fur Schafsverleih (free translation: Rent-a-Sheep Co.). It buys sheep from farmers and rents them to businesses and home owners who want their grass cut cheap...
...students' efforts last month to convince Harvard to loan them a field were frustrated by the University's response that it couldn't lend them space until after the high school started its summer vacation, Vellucci said...
Ochs's songs were best appreciated at large demonstrations. They didn't lend themself easily to the privatistic world of posh living rooms and expensive stereo systems. His music was meant to be experienced immediately, communally. At their best, his songs could move audiences to anger, love, and hope...