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Leaves, tendrils and roots inspire American glass artist Dale Chihuly, so it makes sense that his work would be exhibited at London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Kew Gardens boasts one of the world's largest plant collections, and is also famous for its groundbreaking greenhouses. "Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew" runs until Jan. 15, 2006, so visitors can see the huge works embedded in summer's thick foliage, glowing in an autumnal nest of bare twigs or dusted with winter snow. Chihuly has shown in gardens before, but never in Europe...
...recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, THE RAINBOW WARRIOR STEAMED ACROSS THE BERING STRAIT TO THE SIBERIAN WHALING VILLAGE OF LORINO. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six ... Minutes later two Soviet ships appeared and gave chase [and captured the seventh member, who was escaping in a rubber dinghy] ... Only after the Rainbow Warrior was well into international waters did the Soviet ships turn back ... At week...
DAVID WIMPY, 49, CULTIVATES 800 ACRES OF CORN AND OTHER crops in Kentucky's hilly Amish country. As a member of the 2,300-strong Hopkinsville Elevator Cooperative, he is also part owner of the hottest new thing to hit town, Commonwealth Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant that started up a year ago in a stream-fed rock quarry a mile south of his land. The cooperative has a 94% stake in the $32 million plant, which has made an estimated $40 million in sales over the past year from ethanol and its by-products. Plant manager Mick Henderson says...
Enzymes that help transform cornstarch into ethanol are fairly run-of-the-mill in biotech terms. The same can't be said of those needed to brew bioethanol from indigestible plant fibers. Making enzymes efficient and cheap enough for that has long been an obstacle to a viable bioethanol industry. Canada's Iogen is the only biotech firm to have shipped a batch of commercial bioethanol (see main story). But Novozymes is making waves as well. It announced in March that with $17 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, it had reduced the cost of enzymes for making...
...involved in this because we believe there is a market," says Riisgaard, though he thinks a large bioethanol industry is still years away. With more funds from the DOE, Novozymes will supply enzymes for a bioethanol plant to be built in Nebraska next year by a subsidiary of the Spanish firm Abengoa. More than a few people in Washington will be watching. --By Unmesh Kher. Reported by Ulla Plon/Copenhagen