Word: soils
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This single pedagogical breakthrough may ease some of the traumatic middle-age career switches we have been witnessing in the postwar U.S. Kudos to Northeastern for holding the fort for all these years on behalf of the offspring of America's "children of the soil...
...scientists at Britain's University of Sussex have developed a genetic engineering technique that may eventually reduce the dependence on artificial fertilizers. In search of an alternative, Molecular Biologists John Postgate and R.A. Dixon turned to nitrogen-fixing bacteria found in the soil and on the roots of plants. Capable of taking nitrogen from the atmosphere, these bacteria make it available to the plants as nitrates and other nitrogen compounds. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, however, satisfy only part of the nitrogen needs of the new plants; the rest must come from natural or artificial sources. Was there...
Conjugation. An answer, Postgate and Dixon reasoned, might lie in the multitudes of ordinary soil bacteria. If these organisms could be supplied with genes that conferred the nitrogen-fixing ability, the nitrogen provided to plants could be greatly increased. That might be done by crossbreeding soil bacteria with the nitrogen-fixing variety...
...1980s, and the first manned spacecraft from earth has finally landed on Mars after a five-month journey. The television camera shows two figures poised on the bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...Soil on Hands. Northeastern was among the pioneers of the co-op plan back in 1909, but in the next three decades only 25 other schools followed its lead. Since 1962, however, colleges like Wilberforce University in Ohio, Beloit College in Wisconsin and Pasadena City College in California have flocked to the plan, both for its inherent educational advantages and for its solutions to problems of space and cost. Today, more than 300 institutions have begun cooperative education. An estimated 300 more are considering the step-spurred on by a White House recommendation that $10.8 million in startup grants...