Word: plant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mexico, American plant pathologist Norman Borlaug starts developing high-yield grains that, two decades later, will fuel the green revolution...
...experience of living in the rainforest andlearning about ecology and plant species andtaking hikes was a lot different than sitting in aclassroom and looking at books," he says...
...going to be at the University of Washington in Seattle doing a lecture series, and it just so happens that my 19 year-old daughter, who is doing City Year, will be there too. Now you see, I plant my lectures around Harvard vacations. Isn't that clever...
Stop and smell the roses--and the lilacs and the violets. Artistry in the Garden, the New England Spring Flower Show, continues to bloom today. Exhibits include a "living room," furnished with living plant material, a tribute to "My Fair Lady" depicted in an English courtyard market and a display of topiaries of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit and Friends". Bayside Exposition Center, just off I-93 and Morrissey Boulevard, Boston. 536-9280. 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. $13 in advance, $14 at the door...
...biodiversity to our grandchildren would be immoral. The loss of biodiversity has been a result of human encroachment on novel landscapes: as our populations grow exponentially, so does the need for inhabitable land which leads us to colonize new environments and displace or eradicate the local animal and plant species...