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...Wambugu's view, there are more benefits to be derived from agricultural biotechnology in Africa than practically anywhere else on the planet--and this may be so. Among the genetic-engineering projects funded by the Rockefeller Foundation is one aimed at controlling striga, a weed that parasitizes the roots of African corn plants. At present there is little farmers can do about striga infestation, so tightly intertwined are the weed's roots with the roots of the corn plants it targets. But scientists have come to understand the source of the problem: corn roots exude chemicals that attract striga...
...Baker again transforms Eddie Murphy into the Klump clan. In November he helps Jim Carrey give a Bronx cheer to the holidays in Ron Howard's live-action comedy Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Next year Baker creates an entire simian society in a remake of Planet of the Apes, with Mark Wahlberg. Baker calls it "a film I was born...
Vacation plans were put aside when he was offered Planet of the Apes. Which brings us back to Covina, on that day in 1960 when Baker caused panic by covering a neighbor boy with a fake third-degree burn. "I realized it was a pretty sick thing to do," he says. That's when little Rick turned his attention to primates. "Because of King Kong, the gorilla was the perfect Hollywood monster. I really felt it was something that I could do. So I started on this quest at a very early age." And that's how Rick Baker ended...
...human villain of the piece is Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison), a suaver Joe McCarthy. He wants mutants registered because, he says, their eccentric gifts make them dangerous. Well, the mutant hunter is right! Magneto and his gang have planet-altering mischief in mind...
...that's one of the prerogatives of being worth $9 billion: you can give it away however you want. "I'm very internationally focused," Turner says as he chews on a cigar in his Atlanta CNN Center office. "I think, you know, we're all living on this little planet here, and you know, the borders of countries are just lines on a piece of paper." Sure, he admits, the U.N. gets into a tangle now and then. "Like any organization that's run by people," he says, "it's imperfect." Turner points out that he gives quite...