Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Secrecy was tight. "We worked in a separately secured area within the plant; so only those intimately involved in this operation knew we were there," said engineer Alex Riedy, 36, the leader of the 31-person U.S. team at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant. "We'd be transported in by bus before dawn and back again at night." If asked, they had a cover story: "We were part of an International Atomic Energy Agency commission there at the invitation of the Kazakhstan government, supposedly doing an inventory of nuclear materials...
...senior Pentagon representative said. The mission that ended last week actually began more than , a year ago, when U.S. officials heard a disquieting report from Kazakh officials. The collapse of the Soviet Union, they said, had stranded about 1,300 lbs. of uranium at the sprawling Ulba Metallurgical Plant on the windswept steppes, 20 miles outside the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there...
...York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that is his only friend and likes old Gene Kelly movies. He is devoted to his work as a "cleaner," a Mob hit man of rare talent...
...morning of Sept. 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker -- an out-of-work pressman -- walked into the printing plant of his former employer, the Standard Gravure company of Louisville, Kentucky, and began blasting away with an AK-47. When the shooting was over, 12 people were wounded and nine dead -- including Wesbecker, from a self-inflicted pistol shot...
...does this mean that a dinosaur assembly plant is on the way? Don't hold your breath. The sections of DNA that Woodward collected are much too short for any practical use. The full complement of genes needed to create an organism contains billions of nucleic acid pairs. Woodward found 174 pairs, too few to be certain what animal they came from. "The pieces are so short that you can't say they are like one thing or another," says Ward Wheeler, a molecular biologist at the American Museum of Natural History. "It could be a turtle or a mammal...