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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since local residents depend on the forest for a livelihood, Monarca and the government are attempting to find ways to diversify the area's economy. They have devised an ambitious program to improve the yield of already existing farmland, establish orchards, build more greenhouses (chrysanthemums are already grown in the region and sold for export) and even start fish- breeding pools. Though the plan is only beginning to be implemented, many environmentalists consider it part of a new chapter in Third World conservation. "Setting aside these sites as reserves is only a first step," says Curtis Freese, director of Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Protecting a Royal Refuge | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...UCSD team quickly realized that the successful harnessing of luciferase might yield other benefits. If the firefly gene was a simple, straightforward and easily manipulated one-gene-one-enzyme system (some enzymes require the cooperative efforts of several genes), it might be possible to use it as a $ marker, or "reporter," gene. "We lucked out," says Helinski. "It did turn out to be a single gene that we could manipulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Fireflies and Tobacco Plants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

There he goes again, his heart talking, way out in front of his mind, tugging at the world's iron realities to see if they might yield to a little soft yearning. Some of that happened in the Reykjavik meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, and it has created a continuing frenzy in Washington, a city that admires ornate theories and prolonged process and is frightened by blurted hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: We'Ll Talk About Everything | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Herschbach, Polyani and their colleagues stress that the techniques they developed are still too young to yield practical applications...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Herschbach's `Lunatic Fringe' Now Cornerstone of Discipline | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

...grew urgent against the informal deadline of Shevardnadze's scheduled departure for Ottawa on Tuesday of this week. "If we miss (that date), both sides would be the worse," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. "We don't want that." But the two sides appeared to be unwilling to yield on critical points. "Obviously we desire a settlement as soon as possible," said Shultz, "if it can be settled on the right basis." For the U.S. that means no swap of Daniloff for the accused Soviet Spy Gennadi Zakharov. For the Soviets that means the U.S. must "reconsider" its order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dealing for Daniloff | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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