Word: plants
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...FACTS ARE THAT McKinney has patented a process of extracting THC--pot's active agent--from the marijuana plant; that the Food and Drug Administration has determined that THC can be sold to chemotherapy patients as an anti-nausea drug; and that McKinney subsequently established the Cannabis Corporation to extract and market the THC. All legal. All moral. All seemingly beneficial. Cannabis should be no more contemptuously labelled "a pot company" than should the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture synthetic...
Women also tend to decorate their rooms with plants, students say. When men do have plants, they rarely choose flowery ferns, relying on more hearty specimens. "My roommate bought a cactus. It's the only plant that could survive in our room," says a male Lowell House sophomore...
Some of Berger's stories cover standard topics of environmental abuse: pumping industrial waste straight into rivers until they are opaque with sludge, or a plant's 20 years of illegally disposing of toxic chemicals making groundwater poisonous. In recent years the frequency of such pollution has become all too clear. In Massachusetts alone, there are over a thousand toxic waste dumps that will take the next hundred years to clean up under current laws...
While Berger sings the praises of "resource restorers," his account of environmental problems is neither glib nor blindly optimistic. His desciption of the clean-up of the devastated site of a Hooker Chemical Company plant in Michgan tempers hope for restoring a savaged ecosystem with a realistic sense of what can't be done--of political inertia and of the irreparable harm that has already been done...
Just like in the old movies, a recently-risen Godzilla grouchily slinks his 80-meter-long body all over Japan in search of some decent breakfast (which in this case is a nuclear power plant). Even after we are told that Godzilla is impervious to any man-made weapon, we get to see the Japanese send their best weapons against the monster, naturally to no avail...