Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What "they" did to him began, he says, when he was a boy, the product of a broken home in New York City's Harlem. By nine, he was a chronic and violent troublemaker. When he was given mental tests, he threatened to set fire to the hospital ward and kill a doctor. The tests showed that Bosket was suffering from a severe antisocial personality disorder. His helpless mother had him sent to a reform school, where he began to emulate his father...
...manufacturers the hormone represents the dawn of a dazzling new era in agriculture. To its critics, however, it poses a dangerous threat to the prosperity of dairy farmers and the wholesome image of "nature's perfect food." The product is bovine somatotropin, a natural protein found in cattle that has been artificially mass-produced in the labs of several pharmaceutical firms. When injected into dairy cows, BST can increase their milk production up to 25%. But would the use of BST create a milk glut that could drive down dairy prices? And would consumers view milk from BST-treated cows...
Those questions have ignited debate over BST, which is the first major product that the fledgling biotechnology industry has developed for agriculture. The hormone has been used in several West European nations, the Soviet Union and South Africa. But opposition is intense. The European Parliament, for example, has recommended that its member countries prohibit the sale of meat or milk from BST-treated cows, and two provinces in Canada have temporarily halted the distribution of such products. In the U.S. the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve the use of BST amid rising protests from concerned dairy...
Some dairy officials are worried about tampering with milk at a time when the public is already nervous about food safety. "You're monkeying around with a product that has a natural image," warns Adri Boudewyn, spokesman for the California Milk Advisory Board. The dairy industry is concerned that critics of BST will try to turn public opinion against the hormone. Anti-BST television and radio commercials have already been produced but have not yet aired. One 30-second TV spot, created by Jeremy Rifkin, the flamboyant Washington-based opponent of most biotechnology, features a glass of milk with...
...Abstract, 32,000 copies of which were bought last year, is the product of Government statisticians, with backgrounds ranging from economics to political science, who pore over newspapers and scientific treatises to unearth facts. They rely on more than 200 sources and spend a year putting together a single volume, at a bargain-basement cost of $600,000. Naturally, the authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from...