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Their company, Aresa, a Copenhagen-based biotech start-up, has genetically modified a common weed called thale-cress so that its leaves turn red when the plant comes in contact with nitrogen dioxide - a compound that naturally leaches into the soil from unexploded land mines made from plastic and held together by leaky rubber seals. Aresa is growing large patches of the stuff on old army shooting ranges that have been seeded with land mines...
Aresa has had mixed results. The thale-cress does indeed turn red when it meets nitrogen dioxide. But Aresa can't get the weed to grow large enough to be easily visible. Aresa has experimented with only one of the more than 1,600 varieties of thale-cress. Following the summer letdown, the company ordered 174 different strains, and is awaiting seeds from Libya, Norway, the Caucasus, Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere...
...natural performers, which is why Seven Up! remains the most effortlessly ingratiating program in the series. And the most poignant, since succeeding episodes have shown how they - we - lose more in growing up than is gained. The pretty petal doesn't open; it closes, or withers, or becomes a weed...
...threaten every society." This "root-cause" exploration of conflict is much different than Regensburg's search at the heart of religion for the source of violence. It is also a very different tone than his meeting with German Muslims last year in Cologne, where he implored them to help weed out terrorists from their communities - without any mention of the difficulties facing those same immigrant communities...
...group’s responsibilities were “to hear the proposals, weed through them, and make recommendations to the board of directors at Charlesview,” one source said. The committee considered yesterday’s proposal “within the last few weeks,” then “made a recommendation” to the board in favor of the agreement...