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...have filed Terminator patent applications in dozens of countries. In many of those countries farmers can't afford to buy top-of-the-line seeds every year and must rely on saving a portion of each crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts of the world where food bowls are going empty. "This technology brings no benefit to farmers," says Hope Shand, research director of RAFI...
Hutchinson's performance won effusive reviews from G.O.P. Senators. "He was outstanding," said Utah's Robert Bennett. Said another: "I thought the obstruction case was weak going in. Now I think it's pretty strong...
...rates can provide an offsetting stimulus to demand. But with a single currency for all Europe, there can be only one set of interest rates. The European Central Bank will make decisions based on the overall economic conditions in Europe, essentially in France and Germany. A smaller country with weak demand will just have to accept rising unemployment unless there is also weak demand in the larger countries, as there happens...
...Anna's infidelity is to console her, as a minister would a sinner; Tomas kneels before Anna as a communicant receiving the Eucharist, or a child before its mother. Love is a sacrament of which neither man is worthy. Henrik and Tomas are really complementary halves of one weak man: the Bergman man. Henrik tastes the truth as if it were a bitter plum, and the corners of his mouth tighten in rage and impotence...
...food? Although growers are trying to eliminate the risk of salmonella poisoning from alfalfa sprouts, scientists report it's not so easy. The bacteria, it turns out, may hide in tiny crevices in the seeds. The most susceptible to getting sick: the very young, the elderly and folks with weak immune systems...