Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard announce that would consolidate its four biological institutions to centralize plant studies and help alleviate a shortage of funds. The move consolidated the Botanical Museum, the Farlow Library and Herbarium, the Gray Herbarium, and parts of the Arnold Arboretum to form the Harvard University Herbaria...
Harvard announces a plan to construct an approximately $1 million high technology greenhouse to accommodate a newly tenured plant ecologist. The greenhouse is also part of the Biology departments larger effort to expand its experimental botany programs...
...guerrillas insist that such tactics have contributed heavily to the famine. Even before the drought began, they maintain that half a million Eritreans had been uprooted by the civil war, while thousands of others were unable to plant or store grain. Says Amdemicael Kahsai, a member of the E.P.L.F.'s central committee: "The famine is here because of the way in which the government is trying to resolve its political problems. The lack of rain has just aggravated things." The guerrillas claim that some 3.8 million people in Tigre are affected by the famine, along with 2 million in Eritrea...
...million in capital, but it is expected to spend $5 billion during the next three to five years. About $3.5 billion of that, said Smith, will go toward building a vast factory of & approximately 4 million sq. ft. at a site not yet determined by GM's planners. The plant could be built in a little more than two years, with cars rolling off the assembly line and into showrooms by the fall of 1987. Says an impatient Smith: "I don't like to wait long for anything." The effort could create as many as 20,000 jobs and turn...
...hired in 1951 to help start TIME's new color projects department. "When I began," he recalls, "color photos had to close five weeks before their appearance in the magazine. Then, from the mid-'50s to the late '60s, I flew from New York City to our Chicago printing plant almost every week because our color pages went to press several days before everything else. With today's capabilities, if we get color pictures on a Saturday afternoon, we can have them in the magazine that goes to press Sunday morning." This remarkable advance has required the expansion...