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...shaping Rosewood, he and screenwriter Gregory Poirier have commingled the relatively few known facts of this matter with a lot of very obvious, very movieish fictions. Some of this was doubtless inevitable. Like the terrible end of the story, its ludicrous beginnings--a trampy white woman falsely accuses an anonymous black man of brutally assaulting her, thereby whipping up a mob spirit in Sumner--is known and powerfully shown. What is not available in the historical records is anything very specific about the people, victims and victimizers alike, who lived this story. Nor, apparently, does it offer a suitably heroic...
...JEFF POIRIER, MEMBER OF THE WOODSTOCK '94 NATION
...their study, which was reported in the research journal Science, Michigan's Yves Poirier and his colleagues capitalized on the environmental know-how of a select group of bacteria. In much the same way that humans store excess nutrients as fat, these germs turn sugar into the plastic molecule polyhydroxybutyrate, or PHB. They can also digest the polymer, which means it is biodegradable...
...researchers transplanted the gene for PHB from the bacteria into relatives of the mustard plant. Using energy from the sun and carbon dioxide from the air, the plants manufactured significant amounts of phb. Unfortunately, the process also stunted their growth. But eventually, Poirier expects, scientists will learn how to regulate the hybridization procedure well enough to keep these plastic producers healthy, and perhaps one day alleviate guilt over discarded bottles and wrappers...
...doesn't offer a platform that will be strong enough to beat Barney Frank," Poirier says, adding, "I think he's a desperate candidate...