Word: plant
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...example, journalists reporting on the al Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, which was thought to be a cover for a chemical weapons plant, assumed that they had the wrong plant when they could not find a certificate of ownership with Osama bin Laden’s name...
...raised the roof of a McDonald's to conceal some antennas. Another stashed wireless gear inside signs for BP stations and Red Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request for a 115-ft. saguaro cactus, which would have been triple the plant's natural height. "You'd turn around and run if you saw something like that," says the company's tree specialist, Jim Casqueiro. The solution: split the coverage area and build two 50-footers instead...
...Germany to Central European countries like the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, making everything from light bulbs to high-end Audi automobiles. Last month, for example, German auto-parts maker Bosch said it would eliminate 830 jobs at its factory in Hildesheim, Germany, and move production to a new plant in Miskolc, Hungary. The move will reduce the workforce at the German factory by almost half. Some executives are thinking about even more radical moves, such as transferring not just their production facilities but their entire companies. Hans Brach, who owns an air-conditioning company that employs 50 workers, says...
...Muthanna, the chemical base, the U.N. team unearthed some dusty shells filled with mustard gas, but they had been previously tagged and sealed in past inspections. Only at the Karama missile-design plant in northern Baghdad did the inspectors discover a small violation: several pieces of suspect equipment were missing. Iraq made sure worldwide television crews recorded it all: how punctiliously the regime complied with the U.N. crew, how empty-handed the inspectors came away...
...children who have been weaned on fast food about grains and vegetables they may never have encountered at home. Alice Waters, the chef of Chez Panisse, the celebrated restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., that builds its menus around seasonal ingredients, has launched an "edible school yard," where students learn to plant, harvest and cook organic fruits and vegetables...