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Whole herds of dairy cows are now being injected with a genetically engineered growth hormone (BST) so that they will produce more milk than ordinary cattle. Companies such as Monsanto and Calgene are set to market bioengineered plant products, including tomatoes that ripen without rotting. And researchers are talking about drought-tolerant grass that would need almost no mowing...
...Raul Gardini will be remembered as a shining symbol of his age, a captain of industry and a world-class sailor who piloted both his companies and his million-dollar yachts with joyous abandon. He worked hard for 60 years to cultivate that image, in a land where myths ripen richly and image often counts more than fact...
Late in life, Jean Monnet, a Cognac salesman who went on to become the architect of the Common Market, mused about his dream for a United States of Europe. He thought back to his birthplace in this brandy-making town of Southwest France, where the grapes ripen slowly in the September sun, then mellow for decades in oaken barrels beneath the limestone distilleries. "The great thing about making cognac," he said, "is that it teaches you above all to wait. Man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have to be on your side...
...could not possibly have committed such a crime. Maybe the truth will come out in court -- but regardless of its finale, the case has shoved the debate over date rape into the minds of average men and women. Plant the topic in a conversation, and chances are it will ripen into a bitter argument or a jittery sequence of pale jokes...
...even as Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis extended temporary- resident status to refugees claiming Greek ancestry, he pleaded with ethnic Greeks still in Albania to stay home to prevent a "national disaster." As for refugees in Greece, government spokesman Vyron Polydoras said, "We wish that the idea will ripen that they will return to their homeland...