Word: soiled
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OLUDENIZ, Turkey--After spending the first 19 years of my life with my feet firmly planted on American soil, I embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. In a whirlwind two-week tour, I would see London and then travel to Turkey to sail the Mediterranean isles of the southern coast. It was marvelous...
...consistently found Americans almost two to one in favor of reuniting father and son. And the turning point in the case may have come when Fidel Castro acceded to attorney Greg Craig's insistence that Juan Miguel Gonzalez fly to Washington. Once the boy's father was on U.S. soil and demanding custody of his son, the Miami relatives' claim that Juan Miguel wasn't free to speak collapsed, leaving them and their backers in a no-win battle that their own momentum forced them to fight to the finish, as damaging as that might be to their long-term...
...rice that is fortified with beta-carotene--which the body converts into vitamin A--and additional iron, and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortages are caused by crop damage attributable to pests, drought, poor soil and crop viruses, bacteria or fungi...
...more than half its cassava crop--a key source of calories--to the mosaic virus. Genetically modified, virus-resistant crops can reduce that damage, as can drought-tolerant seeds in regions where water shortages limit the amount of land under cultivation. Biotech can also help solve the problem of soil that contains excess aluminum, which can damage roots and cause many staple-crop failures. A gene that helps neutralize aluminum toxicity in rice has been identified...
...visit to Italy and the Vatican. Putin proposed the joint development of a missile-defense scheme that would protect the U.S., Russia and all of Europe from attacks by "rogue states." But unlike Washington's plan to build an umbrella to intercept incoming missiles before they reach U.S. soil, the Russians propose the joint development of a system of interceptors stationed near missile-capable "rogue states" that would target their missiles immediately after firing and destroy them in the "boost phase," before they leave the stratosphere...