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That is the way great ideas end, not with a bang, not with a whimper, but through reductio ad absurdum. You know investment bankers are not satisfied until every good idea is driven into the ground like a tomato stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with JAMES GRANT: Beware The Day Of the Bear | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...only in 1983 that scientists inserted the first foreign genes into tobacco and petunias, the "white mice" of the plant world. In the years since, similar work has been done on about 50 species of fruits, vegetables and grains. Calgene, a biotech firm in Davis, Calif., has developed a tomato that does not rot as fast as normal varieties, and hopes to market the new product by 1993. Early this year BioTechnica International of Cambridge, Mass., announced the first genetic alteration of corn, the No. 1 crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Bumper Crop of Biotech | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

CAPTION: HOW TO MAKE A LONGER-LASTING TOMATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: A Bumper Crop of Biotech | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...show is Agrigento, 1954. It is based on a Sicilian archaeological site De Stael visited, now defiled by condos and hotels but in those days a bare array of hills crowned with the vestiges of Greek temples. The picture might have degenerated into an orgy of color, with its tomato-red sky and purple patches. Instead the balance is so finely held between the colored cuts and triangles -- two orange, four lemon- yellow, three purple and so on -- that one sees how strong De Stael's formal constraints were, even when he had color turned up to maximum. Braque once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Lyrical Colorist Rediscovered | 7/23/1990 | See Source »

That tranquil obscurity is about to end. Earlier this month, ConAgra agreed to pay $1.3 billion to take over Beatrice, which owns an assortment of such familiar items as Hunt's tomato products, Wesson oils, Swift meats and Orville Redenbacher's popcorn. With combined sales that may reach $21 billion this year, ConAgra has become the No. 2 food company in the U.S., second only to the Kraft General Foods subsidiary of Philip Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Food Giant's Big Appetite | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

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