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Nancy Myers Oak Park, IllinoisThe corn-clad protester in the photo accompanying your article on genetically modified crops perpetuates a myth that haunts Europeans -- the incorporation of genes from transformed DNA into the genome of humans consuming GM products.
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But across many huge corn-clad swaths of this great land, that kind of thing is just
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Corinth; an accidental meeting in the same small chamber of many spiritual essences that combine, as by magnetism into some strange and novel substance; a mixture of appropriations, made lawfully a man's own by labour spent upon the raw material; corn-clad Egypt rescued from a burnt Africa by the richness of a swelling Nile -- the black forest of pines changed into a laughing vineyard by skill, enterprise, and culture -- the mechanism of Frankenstein's man of clay, energized at length by the spark Promethean.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Corinth; an accidental meeting in the same small chamber of many spiritual essences that combine, as by magnetism into some strange and novel substance; a mixture of appropriations, made lawfully a man's own by labour spent upon the raw material; corn-clad Egypt rescued from a burnt Africa by the richness of a swelling Nile -- the black forest of pines changed into a laughing vineyard by skill, enterprise, and culture -- the mechanism of Frankenstein's man of clay, energized at length by the spark Promethean.
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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