Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inside out. The inside is essentially the outside, so when one is there, one is also somewhere else. The "facts" of the structure read like an essay on "What I Did for the Environment Last Summer": the roofs are planted with native grasses and wildflowers atop 6 in. of soil that both fools the birds and serves as a thermal and acoustical insulator. San Bruno is a stone's throw from San Francisco's airport, yet planes flying low overhead create barely a buzz...
Dombeck has tried to cut a new path for the embattled agency. He forced out managers too closely allied with logging interests and began to wean the agency of its dependence on timber receipts. He reordered employee evaluations, putting greater emphasis on how staff members protected water and soil than on how much revenue they produced...
...little and way too late to reverse the damage done by decades of institutional racism. Black farmers now own less than 1% of the farmland in the U.S.; at the turn of the century that figure was 14%. In 1920 nearly 1 million black farmers tilled American soil; 70 years later, that number had dropped to fewer than...
Because their cells naturally produce large quantities of protein, potatoes and tomatoes seem for now to be the most efficient vehicles for the new approach. Instead of mixing viral or bacterial DNA in a formula for injection, for example, scientists could insert it into soil bacteria. When the bacteria are taken up by the plant, therapeutic DNA material is stitched into the plant's genome. Another method of getting genes into plants is to coat tiny particles of tungsten or gold with foreign DNA, then shoot the particles directly into plant cells. Either way, the plant's cells start...
...impeachment became a sure thing, Bill Clinton was literally in the air. After his four-day official trip to Israel, he was flying home on Air Force One. While in Israel and the Gaza Strip, where he had become the first U.S. President to set foot on Palestinian-controlled soil, Clinton still hoped that once he got back home there would be time to sit down with House G.O.P. centrists and bid for their support. But the strain was building. At his joint press conference in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his answers were weary and sometimes brisk...