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...other things, the possibility exists that as transgenes in pollen drift, they will fertilize wild plants, and weeds will emerge that are hardier and even more difficult to control. No one knows how common the exchange of genes between domestic plants and their wild relatives really is, but Margaret Mellon, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' agriculture and biotechnology program, is not alone in thinking that it's high time we find out. Says she: "People should be responding to these concerns with experiments, not assurances...
Rudenstine also said he has many suitors in the foundation world--he served as executive vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for three years before accepting the Harvard presidency...
...originally moved to New York to become president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the educational foundation where he was a member of the founding board of trustees...
...protect local firms from software products sold in India by Western companies. "We said that if we can't compete with multinationals in India, how will we ever be able to compete outside," says NASSCOM's Mehta. It was a winning strategy. The Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. gives a "top-quality" ranking to only 32 software companies around the world; 17 of them are based in India...
...protect local firms from software products sold in India by Western companies. "We said that if we can't compete with multinationals in India, how will we ever be able to compete outside," says NASSCOM's Mehta. It was a winning strategy. The Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in the U.S. gives a "top-quality" ranking to only 32 software companies around the world; 17 of them are based in India...