Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provision that reduces the regulatory barriers to construction of natural-gas pipelines pleased the gas companies but also promised increased use of this relatively clean energy source. Even the nuke- licensing provisions are less threatening than they seem: although it would take fewer steps to get a nuclear power plant licensed, antinuclear sentiment still runs strong, and the prospect of any new plants in the foreseeable future...
Genetic engineering involves adding or subtracting characteristics from an organism by either suppressing the action of a specific gene or by adding a gene from another plant, or even an animal. A few years ago, in an extreme example, scientists spliced a gene from a firefly into a tobacco plant, and the plant glowed in the dark. The kinds of changes allowed under the new policy are much less exotic: vegetables will be exempted from pre-testing only if their nutritional value hasn't been lowered, if they incorporate only new substances -- proteins or sugars, for example -- that are already...
...interesting piece of sustainable development is already emerging unheralded from the intersection of biotechnology and biological diversity. Pharmaceutical companies already reap huge sales from this or that wild and wonderful molecule discovered in the natural variety of plant and animal life. Natural or genetically enhanced organisms aid with environmental cleanup. A CFC-eating bacterium was recently found in sediments of the Potomac River. A basic laboratory for biotechnology and diagnostic medicine uses a heat- resistant enzyme derived from a bacterium native to Yellowstone hot springs. Upward of nearly $100 billion of annual economic activity is generated at this intersection...
Mary V. Acheron '42 began working in a New York chemical warfare plant the September after her graduation. After three years she was promoted to supervisor and guideline writer...
...constituent parts are not. Homer may be an incompetent father and breadwinner (stuck home alone to take care of baby Maggie, he manages to lose the kid), but his heart is in the right place (he feels terrible about it). When Homer loses his job at the nuclear power plant, Marge tells the kids they will have to pitch in to help save money. Bart volunteers to skip baths and read his comic books in the store rather than buy them. Talk about family spirit...