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China has also begun to extend protectionism under the guise of concerns about food safety. For example, a strain of “super rice” developed at the National Rice Institute in Hangzhou has been banned from production for food. After its entry into the World Trade Organization this year, China has become more aggressive about making excuses to keep its markets closed to international competition. The recent concern with the health effects of genetically-modified food—in a country that once enthusiastically embraced such technology—points to economic self-interest over any real...
...success. "Mutt alone has never had this much success in his career," she says. "Never as consistently and never as big. It's what we do together that makes it so great." Since meeting Lange, Twain has become a strict vegetarian and a devotee of Sant Mat, a strain of Sikh mysticism that advocates hours of daily meditation, abstinence from sex and alcohol, and copious journal keeping as the path to self-realization. The whole picture has led some, including Twain's brother Darryl, to conclude that she has become, as he put it in a 2000 magazine interview...
...astonished by the story about the vaccine made from freeze-dried tomato juice that comes from fruit carrying a gene from a strain of the E. coli bacterium. This vaccine can fight off diarrheal diseases. I didn't realize such a thing was possible. I'm glad to know there are scientists trying to find better ways to combat disease in impoverished Third World countries. MARIA MAMAH Union Springs...
...Crimson hopes to have Bullock back from the slight groin strain he suffered this week in practice. That, combined with the match experience Harvard’s younger players gained this weekend in his absence, should prove important in deciding Harvard’s fate...
...joint study sought to discover whether systems primed by Higgins’ modified E. coli to wipe out invaders bearing ovalbumin would effectively protect mice from the melanoma strain tagged with that protein...