Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under an agreement with the government, the University of Pennsylvania will increase the use of pain-relieving drugs in animal experiments, the care of injured animals, and the training of research workers who handle laboratory animals, said Bert W. Hawkins, administrator of the Federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
Scientists will take bacteria called Pseudomonas syringae, which are found on nearly all plants, and extract the gene that causes ice crystals to form when the bacteria come in contact with a plant and the temperature falls to between 20 degrees F and 32 degrees F. The altered bacteria will be sprayed on one-tenth of an acre of strawberry plants and are expected to prevent the plants' blossoms and leaves from freezing. AGS predicts that the product could have sales of up to $100 million annually to farmers...
...sprawling complex, which, in addition to generating thousands of jobs, could attract other high-tech businesses to the area. In that respect, says Bob Chandler, city manager of Winnemucca, Nev. (pop. 5,270), one of the contending sites, "it's a hundred times better than the General Motors' Saturn plant...
...terrible," says one freshman who preferred to remain unidentified. Holly Covin '89 was more specific in her complaints: "They could do better for vegetarians," she says. Although the Union is careful to provide at least one vegetarian entree per meal, Covin says, "They think all we like is egg plant...
...University uses the funds chiefly for building projects, renovations and student loans. The bonds have financed much of Harvard's construction in Roxbury of a $350-million power plant for the Medical School and affiliated teaching hospitals, the Medical Area Total Energy Plant...