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...disease" (even though it had nothing to do with genetic engineering), Americans have seemed indifferent to g.m. foods. Not that they have much choice: half of all soybeans, about a third of the corn crop and substantial quantities of the potatoes grown in the U.S. come from plants that have been genetically altered. And many more g.m.s are in the offing, including alfalfa, lettuce, broccoli and cabbage--if there's a market for them. Some skittish U.S. farmers now say they may plant fewer g.m. seeds next spring...
Thoreau orders Wild Fruits as a botanist might, collecting his notes on each plant in the order in which it blooms. He records the dates of his sightings and the measurements he has made: "September 24, 1859. The common shrub oak is apparently the most fertile of our oaks. I count two hundred sixty-six acorns on a branch just two feet long." But he has trouble keeping poetry out of his descriptions: "August 23, 1858. Abundantly shedding its downy seeds, wands of white and pink." And sometimes the objective mask slips completely: "July 30, 1860. Beautiful...
...this point, New Yorkers would not be surprised to hear that someone who took a position contrary to the mayor's in a late-night discussion of how a Jack Dempsey-Rocky Marciano fight would turn out had awakened the next morning to find a municipal water-treatment plant being built on his block...
When the birds arrive at Savenor's, they have already been cleaned at a processing plant...
While this doesn't wholly clear Lee (and doesn't do anything to allay CIA suspicion that the document in question just might be a plant by the Chinese government), if true, it's further evidence that perhaps dozens of others, including Sandia National Laboratories, Lockheed Martin Corp. or even the Navy, could be responsible. None of this comes as any surprise to critics of the FBI's handling of the case. "Those of us who've covered this have always known that information about the W-88 warhead was available in many corners and to many contractors," says TIME...