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...Copenhagen-based biotech start-up, has genetically modified a common weed called thale-cress so that its leaves turn red when the plant comes in contact with nitrogen dioxide--a compound that naturally leaches into the soil from unexploded land mines made from plastic and held together by leaky rubber seals. Aresa is growing large patches of the stuff on old army shooting ranges that have been seeded with land mines...
...have little power over these expansions if elected. The only entity with the ability to curtail Harvard’s activity is the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), an independent city agency that oversees development projects. During a debate in October, the two candidates criticized the current Boston government for rubber-stamping Harvard’s plans without securing anything in return. “We’ve gotten no community benefits written in stone, it’s a joke,” Glennon said. “People are being driven out by a process that doesn?...
...which they felt invincibly enjoined to turn over cars and set a lot of things on fire. Of course, the Boston police would already be waiting for them, foaming at the mouth, massaging their batons, and fantasizing about spraying their “non-lethal” rubber bullets into a crowd of spoiled hooligans. And so it goes...
...deceive you: Military panels are no substitute for habeas corpus hearings. Officials are pressured to rubber-stamp previously made judgments and accept “garbage” evidence, explains Lt. Col. Stephen E. Abraham, a military attorney who helped run the tribunals. “Nobody stood up and said the emperor’s wearing no clothes,” he writes in an affidavit. “The prevailing attitude was, ‘If they’re in Guantanamo, they’re there for a reason...
...special group,” says percussionist and music director Il-Ryun Chung. “There is no existing repertoire, so we are playing mostly brand new songs. For Asian instruments, it’s one of the first attempts to try this.”PLAYING A RUBBER BAND“Each one has a distinctive character,” says Jocelyn Clark, the founder of IIIZ+, of the zithers. “What I like about the zither compared to, for instance, the harp, which is a very beautiful instrument, is the ability to make ornaments...