Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the Israelis intended to snatch Sheik Abdul-Amir Kabalan, who has a house in Insariyeh and is influential in Amal, one of the Shi'ite militia groups. Israel has carried out such kidnappings before, but military insiders downplayed this theory. They hinted instead that the mission was to plant explosive devices in the area, targeted either at a nearby Hizballah post or an Amal encampment...
HUDSON BEEF You wouldn't feed it to a dog. Bacteria scare shuts plant...
...young food-poisoning sufferer gave what he considered to be a suspicious beef patty to county health officials near his Pueblo home. By mid-August, at least 14 more cases--including Schlegelmilch's--had cropped up statewide, all traceable to patties prepared at a Columbus, Neb., meat-processing plant owned by Hudson Foods of Rogers, Ark. The contamination probably originated at one of the slaughterhouses that supplies the Nebraska plant, but U.S. Department of Agriculture investigators found extensive problems at the plant, including the practice of tossing one day's leftover raw beef into the next day's batch...
...drug's maker, pulled Ex-Lax Friday after the FDA announced an intended ban of the product. Apparently high doses of phenolphthalein, Ex-Lax's active ingredient, causes cancer in laboratory animals. Novartis said it was "obviously disappointed," but promised that a reformulated Ex-Lax derived from the senna plant would be on store shelves in 60 days. Expect coffee and bran muffin futures to skyrocket when Wall Street's big players get back from the beach...
...Rock: The nation's oldest commercial nuclear plant will close Friday, when operators at Michigan's Big Rock reactor lower the damper rods for the last time. Now comes the hard part: A five-year project to safely dismantle the reactor and dispose of some 442 bundles of spent uranium fuel at the site...