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Take, for example, mushy tomatoes. Yes, those tomato slices look so firm and juicy when you plop them on your salad, but are soon revealed to be watery, tasteless fakes. Of course they're left on our plates at the end of the meal; eating them could put you off tomatoes for life...
...Soul of a New Tomato...
...another first for biotechnology, scientists have isolated a disease- resistant gene in one type of tomato, cloned it and inserted it into a variety of tomato that lacks that gene. The cloned gene signals the plant's defense system to ward off an invasion by bacteria that cause a leaf- destroying disease known as speck. Researchers predict that similar advances with other crops will significantly reduce the need for pesticides by the end of the century...
...Coke, Sprite, ginger ale, tomato juice, orange juice, apple juice, lemonade, diet Coke, diet Sprite, orange soda, milk, tea, coffee, decaf, root beer, club soda, mineral water, ice water...
...Texas is worried about flat-glass imports, and has asked for a study on how many jobs will be lost and won in his district. Republican Dan Miller is worried about the impact of Mexican produce on vegetable growers in his Florida district who specialize in the "winter tomatoes" that spruce up salads between late fall and early spring. "I've got a major tomato problem," said Miller last week. "I'd like to be for it," he said, but added, "I'm switching to leaning against...