Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many years the evidence of such motherly love applied only to peaceful, plant-eating dinosaurs. Now a dramatic discovery announced in the current Science suggests that the carnivores had a nesting instinct as well. Working with a U.S.-Mongolian team in the remote Gobi Desert, paleontologist Mark Norell of New York City's American Museum of Natural History found the nearly complete skeleton of a predatory-dinosaur embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found...
Romney, the former CEO of venture-capital firm Bain Capital, was put on the defensive by a Kennedy ad which said that a Bain Capital-owned company laid off hundreds of workers at an Indiana plant and then rehired them at a lower wage and without health care benefits...
Meanwhile, soybean growers in Mississippi, relative newcomers to the bean culture, experimented with Northern plant varieties requiring less growing time and thus less exposure to the worst summer heat. The plants took hold like natives, and there too it was apparent that as the weather smiled, the yields mounted. The soybean experts in the Midwest tinkered with denser plantings, reducing the distance between rows by as much as 30 inches to cut down on the herbicides necessary to kill the weeds. That worked beautifully, as the profusion of bean plants popped out quickly and sheltered the ground around them, crowding...
...that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production 20% to 25% -- have yet to transform Brown into an optimist. The ratio of food to population is the lowest in 20 years, he says, and "it will take at least five years for the new rice plant to have any effect. In other crops, the research with fertilizers and new seeds seems to have plateaued...
...return for what? North Korea promises to allow the inspection of nuclear- waste sites -- inspections it was committed to by treaty provisions it signed three years ago -- oh, perhaps five years from now. And North Korea promises to shut down its plutonium reprocessing plant. Nice promise. Unfortunately, we've been here before. North Korea made the same pledge in a 1992 deal, which it then blithely broke. This time around it promises to dismantle the plant. When? In the next century...