Word: plant
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...Calif. But when commercial production of the wheat-based plates and bowls begins next year, consumers will see only EarthShell's name on the label. There will be no reference to ARS. "We don't want the USDA to appear as an endorser," says Ed Knipling, the mild-mannered plant physiologist who runs ARS. "We don't brand our products...
...school laboratory lumped under the sprawling U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS keeps pumping out high-tech solutions to a broad array of problems, ranging from the urgent (how to eradicate plant and animal diseases) to the less pressing (how to duplicate the tangy taste of San Francisco's sourdough bread outside the Bay Area). Along the way, the agency has won numerous patents for breakthrough mechanisms, like the one pending for turning peanut shells into hydrogen fuel and another for harnessing chicken manure to remove metals from polluted water...
...Beltsville, Md., biodiesel, derived from vegetable oil, powers fleets of tractors and lawn mowers for the farms and even heats some of the buildings. Indeed, petroleum is prohibited in the carpeting (which is instead held together by soy-based urethane). The only permissible hand soaps and cleaning products are plant based. And in the parking lot, says Justin Barone, one of two ARS researchers devoted to feather-fiber research, "you'll see a lot more bicycles and Toyota Priuses than SUVs...
RASHID SALIH, Iraqi citizen, after three car bombs exploded near a crowd of soldiers and civilians, mostly children, at the opening of a U.S.-funded sewage-treatment plant in Iraq...
...cited the prosecution's case against Tyson in a 2003 immigration trial yet barely mentioned that a jury acquitted the company. When so many companies have moved jobs offshore, those of us that have chosen to keep jobs here are working hard to provide for our employees and plant communities. If people are upset with how immigration is being handled, we should look to the government to reform the system, not blame companies that are trying to abide by the rules...