Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family's farm [AMERICAN SCENE, Jan. 25]. You said Smith, who bought the farm at auction, had bulldozed the grave of a Barker family member. Smith had never been advised that there was a grave on the premises. In the process of clearing the land, workmen came upon a small gravesite hidden by brush and overgrowth. Upon finding the grave, Smith stopped work and began to clear and preserve the site. He intends to restore it to proper condition, fence it in and record it in public records, so the cemetery will be preserved in perpetuity. JAMES E. CROSS...
...that concerns the more than half a billion people in developing countries of the tropics, for whom different types of bananas are a staple food crop. In this war, people are battling the diseases and pests that are becoming more and more rampant. Average yields achieved by the small farmers who depend on this crop are one-tenth of those on the large multinational plantations. But the small farmers' harvests don't have to remain small. Research can successfully address production problems by developing higher-yielding varieties of banana plants that have built-in resistance to pests and diseases. EMILE...
There's a human liver sitting in a lab dish in Madison, Wis. Also a heart, a brain and every bone in the human body--even though the contents of the dish are a few cells too small to be seen without a microscope. But these are stem cells, the most immature human cells ever discovered, taken from embryos before they had decided upon their career path in the body. If scientists could only figure out how to give them just the right kick in just the right direction, each could become a liver, a heart, a brain...
...lining cells from the inside and grown them in his lab. The cells, fed the proper growth-prompting chemicals, happily go forth and multiply. "In six weeks we have enough cells to cover a football field," Atala says. He placed a few muscle cells on the surface of a small polymer sphere and some lining cells on the inside. When he inserted the sphere in a dog's urinary system, the artificial bladder began to function like the real thing. Bioengineer Linda Griffith at nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology is doing similar work with rat-liver tissue...
Bangkok-based filmmaker/activist Ing Kanjanavanit isn't appeased. "This battle isn't just over one cove on a small remote island; it's over the institution of our National Park Act itself," she says. "For 10 years the government tried to defang it and open up parks for tourism de-velopment. In this case, the studio's agenda and the government's agenda met." Kanjanavanit, who can no longer speak about The Beach situation without crying, says families and friends on the neighboring island Phi Phi Don have split over the controversy. She's right about that. "Many people...