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...test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...
...Thousand Men of Harvard don't have the integrity of a baked potato. Jon Hite Director, UMass Alumni Office
...inveterate couch potato, the average year or two gained by serious exercisers may seem small compensation for a lifetime of pedaling an exercise bicycle. But in individual terms, the researchers note, such an increase can . be significant, since it means that the lives of some men would presumably be extended ten to 20 years. In fact, the steady benefits of exercise are comparable to those that come from medical breakthroughs. Paffenbarger makes the point by projecting the impact of curing the disease most feared by Americans. "If it were possible to eliminate cancer as a cause of death," he says...
...potato is also a good source of potassium," Hennessey adds...
...Potato skins are very popular, but some people have expressed the view that they do not suffice as a main course," Eisert notes. "People enjoy it, but some have said they would rather have chicken with a potato skin on the side or something like that...