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...That is, I can no longer chant '1940! 1940!" to indignant--and utterly defenseless--Rangers fans. As a lifelong Mets fan, the Yankees' success is equally painful. Especially because I spent a good part of my youth razzing my pinstripe-worshipping friends about George Steinbrenner gems such as Steve Trout, Steve Kemp and Steve Balboni...
...technology first became available, more than 20 years ago. By mixing and matching bits of DNA -- cutting a gene from one kind of organism and pasting it into another -- they hoped to make new, improved plants and animals. Over the years they've put corn genes in rice, trout genes in catfish, chicken genes in potatoes, even firefly genes in tobacco (yielding a plant that actually glowed in the dark). A few years ago, Department of Agriculture researchers tried to produce leaner pork by splicing a human gene into a pig embryo. What they got was a cross-eyed porker...
...trout, which could not be used in salmon plants was given to workers who would, "take the Crisco used to lubricate the machines and fry the fish. We'd kill them, cut them up and eat them. They tasted amazing." Sometimes, David admits, workers would steal salmon too--sticking them into the spaces left by oversized boots...
...Black Rose. Harvard Square. 492-8630. College Party Night with 94.5 FM on Thursday, Oct. 14. Scott Denguard and Jabbering Trout on Friday, Oct. 15. Jim Plunkett on Saturday...
...early 1900s, elaborate water projects have sought to capture snow melts, pumping water across the mountains from the moist west to the dry east. That engineering worked satisfactorily until 1990, when the Environmental Protection Agency outlawed the building of the giant Two Forks dam in order to protect a trout-rich river system. As a result, Denver is now judged to have only about 20 years' worth of identifiable water sources left...