Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Didn't Die: Smart planning kept rapid commercial and industrial growth from choking off the town's charm. When Wal-Mart wanted in, Danville made the discounter downsize its signs and plant screens of trees around...
...pity land-mine manufacturers. Even though 125 countries have now signed a treaty banning the anti-personnel weapons, the makers won?t go out of business. There's their old standby the United States, which is refusing to sign up until it is given a special exclusion to plant mines in the Korean DMZ. Not to mention Russia, China, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, who all balked at this landmark treaty...
...else fails, remember, there are still anywhere between 60 and 100 million mines planted in war zones all over the world. If it was profitable to plant mines, imagine how much these firms can make in the demining business. Indeed, that seems to be the aim of a number of companies who traveled to Ottawa to hawk their wares to treaty delegates. Bargains included the $500,000 remote-control mine detector, the supersonic air shovel and the Superman mine-awareness comic book. No word on what the hundreds of land-mine victims, observing the treaty signing on crutches...
...Methyl bromide is not applied to grapes in the field," he said. "Methyl bromide is only used to fumigate a bare field before you plant...
...similar process produced the even deadlier toxin of botulinum bacteria, but because oxygen kills these germs, they were grown in a fermenter infused with nitrogen. Botulism is a severe kind of food poisoning that causes paralysis and death. The Iraqis also used the castor-bean plant, widely grown in the country, to produce the poison ricin, which kills by altering the body's use of proteins and causing circulatory collapse and heart failure...