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...Rockefeller-sponsored meeting, Potrykus met the University of Freiburg's Peter Beyer, an expert on the beta-carotene pathway in daffodils. They decided to combine their expertise. In 1993, with some $100,000 in seed money from the Rockefeller Foundation, Potrykus and Beyer launched what turned into a seven-year, $2.6 million project, backed by the Swiss government and the European Union. "I was in a privileged situation," reflects Potrykus, "because I was able to operate without industrial support. Only in that situation can you think of giving away your work for free...
...Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Gaborone and Simon Robinson/Dar es Salaam
...argue against his release. "It wasn't just one murder, it was 270 murders," says Brian Flynn, whose brother was one of them. "Twenty years in prison isn't nearly enough." But certainly nothing is enough. "My son is still dead, and that is not going to change," said Peter Lowenstein. That fact is beyond the remit of law and politics alike...
...friends. Not best friends, the 14-year-old girls are quick to clarify, but good friends nonetheless. They attend Hjällboskolan, a school on the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, where the student body covers such a spectrum of backgrounds that headmaster Lars-Peter Ekenberg estimates more than 100 nationalities are represented. Suman, whose parents are from India, was born in Sweden. Katarina's family has been in Sweden for generations, but the same is not true of most of her classmates and friends. "I hang out mostly with them," she says. "The Swedish girls...
...Academic disparity between many of the immigrant and Swedish children further complicates the situation. Deputy headmaster Peter Holmqvist describes how vast the gulf can be, noting that some of the immigrants are refugees from war zones who are illiterate, even in their own language. "We have cases where newcomers arrive on the plane on Monday and on Wednesday they're here ready for school," he says. Placing children such as these in the same classes as the far more advanced students from Olofstorp is a practical impossibility...