Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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French officials hear that many Iraqi factories are closed or working half time; the nation's largest textile plant is said to be operating only eight hours a week. Egyptian laborers returning from Iraq report that bakers are being forced to mix barley with scarce flour to make a tasteless bread. As if to confirm such reports of hardship, Saddam Hussein's government last week decreed the death penalty for hoarders of wheat, barley, rice, flour and maize...
Sometimes the medium gets in the way of the message. Last week the Colorado chapter of Greenpeace unveiled an antinuclear billboard blitz near the idle Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant outside Denver -- and ran afoul of another environmental group: Citizens Against Billboards on Highway...
Chickens typically travel a filthy path from the farm through the slaughterhouse. Stuffed 10 or 12 to a cage on the truck to the processing plant, they eat one another's germ-laden excrement and spread it on their feathers and skin. At the plant, the birds move rapidly along a disassembly line where they are killed, dropped in scalding water, mechanically defeathered and eviscerated, and chilled in huge water tanks that usually become contaminated. "This is really no different than putting these birds in your toilet," contends Gerald Kuester, a microbiologist with the Public Citizen advocacy group...
...have been exhaustively studied, especially among survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet researchers had never confirmed that the children of exposed men could be affected. Earlier this year, researchers in England reported that such transmission may in fact be possible. Children of male workers at the Sellafield nuclear power plant were up to eight times as likely to be stricken by leukemia as children whose fathers did not work at the plant. The researchers theorized that cumulative low-level doses of radiation during the six months before conception may have triggered the damage...
...Salvador, the four American Maryknoll missionaries and six Jesuit priests who were martyred by rightwing terrorists because they dared to speak out for the poor. I look to people like the Epiphany Plowshares, a group of laypersons and clergy who were imprisoned for breaking into a missile assembly plant in Pennsylvania during an anti-war protest. Or a person like Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who devoted her life to helping the poorest of the poor in India, regardless of race, religion or creed...