Word: tomatos
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Occasionally, tables would also have vegetables and dip or a silver platter containing one of two hot appetizers chosen by the senator--miniature quiches or meatballs in a tomato sauce...
TECHNOLOGY: Brave New Tomato...
...after decades of biotech setbacks and controversy, consumers finally have something they can sink their teeth into. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week endorsed as safe the first genetically altered food to be sold to consumers -- a tomato called the Flavr Savr and billed as offering "summertime taste" all year long. Calgene, the Davis, California- based company that produced Flavr Savr (and came up with that silly name), says its new tomato will appear in selected supermarkets in California and the Midwest this week and should be available across the rest of the country before...
...animal breeders might get the same outcome, but they often have to wait for several generations to mature and reproduce, and their techniques are more hit and miss. In the case of Calgene's new product, scientists zeroed in on a gene associated with an enzyme that makes the tomato rot. Then they reversed the effects, ensuring that the tomato stays fresher longer...
...SUPER TOMATO...