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Maybe, but why take the risk? Brain tumors must be excised, if possible, but dandelions don't really do any harm. In fact, they are pretty, enthusiastic, nutritious in salads and excellent for wine making. Of course, if they ever became popular, the lawn-care megacorporations would sell us patent medicine to encourage them by killing the grass. In the meantime, California may be the waterless wave of the future. In Los Angeles, Robin Thomas is trying to revive his dried yellow grass with organic products, not chemicals, because "I have children, and they play on the lawn." In Oakland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lawns Be Justified? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Leder's genetic research gained worldwide attention in 1988 when he became the first to obtain a patent on a genetically altered animal...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Genetically Altered Mice Offer Clues to Cancer | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...patent office ruled that a smell, like a name or symbol, can be trademarked, which came as a relief to the makers of a scented embroidery kit in the shape of a skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And While You Were Gone . . . | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...would still be necessary to prove that Saddam Hussein could not be stopped by economic sanctions and diplomacy. Note that the U.N. authorized force, but neither required it nor recommended it. The refusal of the administration to negotiate or even to consider offering any face-saving compromise, and its patent eagerness to rush into war after only a few months of sanctions tell us all we need to know here; sanctions and diplomacy were never given a chance...

Author: By Rosa Ehrenreich, | Title: Support the Troops: Resist | 1/18/1991 | See Source »

...help treat victims of a gas explosion in Bangkok. In the U.S. the doctor has won converts at the New Jersey-based National Burn Victim Foundation. Xu, 32, who comes from a family of herbal-medicine specialists, will not reveal the ointment's formula until he receives a patent, saying only that it contains honey, sesame oil and other "herbal" ingredients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cold Shoulder for a Burn Cure | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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