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...widespread perception that agricultural biotechnology is intrinsically inimical to the environment perplexes Gordon Conway, the agricultural ecologist who heads the Rockefeller Foundation. He views genetic engineering as an important tool for achieving what he has termed a "doubly green revolution." If the technology can marshal a plant's natural defenses against weeds and viruses, if it can induce crops to flourish with minimal application of chemical fertilizers, if it can make dryland agriculture more productive without straining local water supplies, then what's wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grains of Hope | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...just cool--he is going to inspire us," Class Marshal Xunhua Wong '01 said of Bono...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock Star Named Class Day Speaker | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

First Class Marshal Amma Y. "Yo' Mama" Ghartey-Tagoe '01 announced the selection in front of the Science Center yesterday to a crowd of seniors...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock Star Named Class Day Speaker | 2/2/2001 | See Source »

Capitol Hill and the White House have their own institutionalized pageantry (think the State of the Union address), but when Dale Bosley, the marshal of the Supreme Court, came into the chamber on Friday to declare, "God save the United States and this honorable court," it was hard not to feel a little bit moved. At a time when presidential candidates buss their wives on TV and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives don't speak for months at a time, the ringing proclamation of "Oyez, oyez, oyez" was exhilarating, a signal that the highest court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: May It Please The Court | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

According to First Class Marshal Amma Y. "Yo' Mama" Ghartey-Tagoe '01, the list is intentionally ambitious in an effort to woo a speaker that will inspire the graduating class...

Author: By Brendan J. Reed and Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Gore, Madonna, Dalai Lama Make List of Class Day Speaker Hopefuls | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

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