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...National Wildlife Federation's biotechnology project: "This system is an important advance. In and of itself, it doesn't answer questions about whether bioengineered organisms are in general more or less safe than their natural counterparts. But it allows you to answer some of the questions. The marker system puts a little identity tag on the organism...
Indeed, the ability to track recombinant bacteria through the environment has become a crucial factor in getting EPA approval for a release. The lack of an effective marker has, for example, held up a test by Biotechnica International, a Cambridge, Mass., firm, of Rhizobium bacteria altered to boost their ability to fix nitrogen in the soil. In one of the California ice- minus tests, however, scientists have been able to monitor the spread of anti- icing bacteria on potato plants. The marker system in this case was rifampicin resistance, less sensitive than Monsanto's multiple indicator but still able...
...embargo, since the origin of oil on world markets is hard to trace. But, he said, "while Iran is conducting the war (with Iraq) and conducting terrorism, we shouldn't be buying things from them to the tune we are.... We feel it's important to lay down our marker...
...black and white. It's drawn with a magic marker. It has a lot of words. It contains few words pertaining to the election, save "Vote for me!" In short, the campaign poster looks crude compared to its flowery and poetic companions...
...expected to find a sign or exhibit, some concrete acknowledgement that once blacks were enslaved there, bound up and put down there. And I expected the sign to say that was bad. But there was no sign, only a small marker near some small shacks. "This is where the slaves slept," it read...