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...USDA--under pressure from Midwestern politicians who dream of biopharm Silicon Valleys in Iowa--has stopped short of restricting biopharming in major corn-growing states. Its new rules would step up inspections of biopharms and expand the buffer zone between genetically modified corn and food crops to a mile. But opponents say that's not wide enough to prevent cross-pollination, and a coalition of 11 environmental groups is filing suit against the Agriculture Department. They want to ban the use of food crops for pharmaceutical uses and restrict the plants to greenhouses. If such measures were enforced, argues Jonathan...
...says Yankovic. "But a lot of his songs are sort of tongue in cheek already. Lose Yourself was so serious that it was perfectly ripe." But at the request of the rapper, Potato won't come with an accompanying video. "Eminem thought that a video might detract from 8 Mile and people might not take him seriously." It's a problem Al has been battling all his life...
...curtain rises on the twilight of the boyhood idols: in October 2001. Williams, "the Splendid Splinter," was on his deathbed in Florida. Pesky and DiMaggio, both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees...
...making compasses spin. Winchester, a geologist by training, initiates us gently into the pleasures of plate tectonics, and he leavens his lectures with big-budget action scenes: when the big day comes, ravenous tidal waves chase the locals up cliffs and strand a hapless Dutch gunship a mile and a half inland, its crew of 28 dead on arrival...
...session, co-sponsored by the Department of Athletics and the Ann Radcliffe Trust, was the last of a four-part series celebrating the sesquicentennial of intercollegiate athletics. The first intercollegiate match was a two-mile boat race between Harvard and Yale on August...