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Two documentary segments concerning biological pest control in South America & the need for fire to maintain a healthy ecosystem.

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Despite its title, this theatrical feature has little to do with the mecha adventures and ensemble comedy of the popular broadcast series Mobile Police Patlabor. Inspector Shin'ichiro Hata of the Tokyo Police is assigned to investigate an unexplained series of violent and grisly deaths. Instead of the rogue mecha the Patlabor team fight, the killer is a weird, amphibious monster, the product of yet another biotech experiment gone wrong. Hata meets the beautiful scientist who created the monster--using cells from the cancer that killed her daughter. The familiar characters Noa Izumi, Isao Ota, and Captain Goto appear in brief cameos when they dispatch the mutant monster in a half-ruined stadium. Director Fumihiko Takayama tries to emulate the look and tone of Hiroyuki Okiura's Jin-Roh, but fails to generate the ominous tension that distinguished The Wolf Brigade. (Rated R: violence, grotesque imagery, profanity, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

Director:  Fumihiko Takayama, Takuji Endo
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Despite its title, this theatrical feature has little to do with the mecha adventures and ensemble comedy of the popular broadcast series Mobile Police Patlabor. Inspector Shin'ichiro Hata of the Tokyo Police is assigned to investigate an unexplained series of violent and grisly deaths. Instead of the rogue mecha the Patlabor team fight, the killer is a weird, amphibious monster, the product of yet another biotech experiment gone wrong. Hata meets the beautiful scientist who created the monster--using cells from the cancer that killed her daughter. The familiar characters Noa Izumi, Isao Ota, and Captain Goto appear in brief cameos when they dispatch the mutant monster in a half-ruined stadium. Director Fumihiko Takayama tries to emulate the look and tone of Hiroyuki Okiura's Jin-Roh, but fails to generate the ominous tension that distinguished The Wolf Brigade. (Rated R: violence, grotesque imagery, profanity, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

Director:  Fumihiko Takayama, Takuji Endo
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“Flumpa's World: Frogs, Rain Forests & Other Fun Facts,” features 12 original tunes in various pop, funk and fun music styles with catchy lyrics designed to help children ages 3 to 9 learn “fantazulmazmic fun facts” about amphibians, reptiles, rain forests and the environment. These lyrics are based on nationally accepted science curricula and are designed to inspire positive action to enhance the sciences and preserve the earth. “A Frog's Life” traces the development of a frog from egg to hopping adult; “Swamp Stompin'” will get kids bopping to real frog, toad and tree frog sounds as they learn about a mucky ecosystem; “Rain Forest Rock” is a danceable tune exploring the different levels of a tropical rain forest; “Rain Forest Paradise” conveys the wonder of discovering the life in a fragile environment; and the haunting drums and background vocals on “Voices of the Forest” echo real recordings made of children and animals in the Amazon region. Kids also love the moving music of “The Future's In Our Hands” and the energy of the closing tune, “Go Flumpa Go!” With its top-notch musicianship, soothing vocals and production values, “Flumpa's World” draws from some of the best talent in Nashville. AWARDS & SELECTIONS A 1998 Parents' Choice Approval 1998—The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval Selected by the Parent Council as Outstanding Dr. Toy's 100 Best Children's Products for 1998 Dr. Toy's 10 Best Children's Software, CD's, High Tech Products Parent's Guide to Children's Media audio award Museum Store Association - One of the top educational audio products 1999 Nominee—Nashville Music Awards, Children's Music Recording of the Year

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Unweaving the Web of Destruction

The continuing devastation of the world’s tropical rain forest affects us all—spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment’s resiliency. Millions of worried people around the world want to do whatever it takes to save the forest that is left.

But halting rain forest destruction means understanding what is driving it.

In Breakfast of Biodiversity, John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto insightfully describe the ways in which such disparate factors as the international banking system, modern agricultural techniques, rain forest ecology, and the struggles of the poor interact to bring down the forest. They weave an alternative vision in which democracy, sustainable agriculture, and land security for the poor are at the center of the movement to save the tropical environment.

This new, fully updated edition of Breakfast of Biodiversity discusses important new developments in our understanding of rain forest biology and assesses the impacts of a decade of "free" trade on the rain forest and on those who live in and around it.

Author: John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto
Paperback:  207 pages
Company: Food First  (2005-10)
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Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the focus toward material and symbolic “natures,” seemingly unchangeable essences central to formations of race, class, and nation that are being remade not just through conflicts over resources but also through everyday practices by Chicano activists, white environmentalists, and state officials as well as nuclear scientists, heroin addicts, and health workers. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, he shows how these contentious natures are integral both to environmental politics and the formation of racialized citizens, politicized landscapes, and modern regimes of rule.

Kosek traces the histories of forest extraction and labor exploitation in northern New Mexico, where Hispano residents have forged passionate attachments to place. He describes how their sentiments of dispossession emerged through land tenure systems and federal management programs that remade forest landscapes as exclusionary sites of national and racial purity. Fusing fine-grained ethnography with insights gleaned from cultural studies and science studies, Kosek shows how the nationally beloved Smokey the Bear became a symbol of white racist colonialism for many Hispanos in the region, while Los Alamos National Laboratory, at once revered and reviled, remade regional ecologies and economies. Understories offers an innovative vision of environmental politics, one that challenges scholars as well as activists to radically rework their understandings of relations between nature, justice, and identity.

Author: Jake Kosek
Paperback:  408 pages
Company: Duke University Press  (2006)
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Tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, is the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. This book--a seminal study in its field--provides a simple yet eloquent introduction to the discipline, explaining what a dendrochronologist does both in the field and in the laboratory. Authors Stokes and Smiley first explain the basic principles of tree-ring dating, then describe details of the process, step by step, from the time a sample is collected until it is incorporated into a master chronology. The book focuses on coniferous evergreens of the Southwest, particularly piñons, because they have wide geographic distribution, constitute a large population, and show excellent growth response to certain controlling factors. The book is specifically concerned with the task of establishing a calendar date for a wood or charcoal specimen. This concise but thorough explication of an important discipline will make dendrochonology more meaningful to students and professionals in archaeology, forestry, hydrology, and global change.

Author: Marvin A. Stokes, Terah L. Smiley
Paperback:  73 pages
Company: University of Arizona Press  (1996-10-01)
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Forest biological diversity: an overview. J. Burley. Jeffery Burley is Professor of Forestry at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Forestry (more...)

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Forest biological diversity conservation as an element of sustainable forest management - policy and practice in Poland. K. Rykowski. Kazimierz Rykowski is Professor of (more...)

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Pursuant to paragraph 4(d) of Decision VIII/19, the operation of the forest web portal of the Convention on Biological Diversity has been suspended. (more...)

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fisheries service on boris worm's headlining prediction as "far too pessimistic"? article-Fishermen on the high seas have plenty of worries, not the least of which are boat-tossing storms, territorial squabbles and even pirates. Now Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, has added another. After studying, among other things, global catch data over more than 50 years, he and a team of 13 researchers in four countries have come to a stunning conclusion. By the middle of this century, fishermen will have almost nothing left to catch. "None of us regular working folk are going to be able to afford seafood," says Stephen Palumbi, a Stanford University marine biologist and co-author of the study published in Science. "It's going to be too rare and too expensive." Don't tell that to your local sushi chef. Over the past three decades, the fish export trade has grown fourfold, to 30 million tons, and its value has increased ninefold, to $71 billion. The dietary attractiveness of seafood has stoked demand. About 90% of the ocean's big predators--like cod and tuna--have been fished out of existence. Increasingly, fish and shrimp farms are filling the shortfall. Though touted as a solution to overfishing, many of them have--along with rampant coastal development, climate change and pollution--devastated the reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds where many commercially valuable fish hatch. Steven Murawski, chief scientist at the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, finds Worm's headlining prediction far too pessimistic. Industry experts are even more skeptical. "There's now a global effort to reduce or eliminate fishing practices that aren't sustainable," says industry analyst Howard Johnson. "With that increased awareness, these projections just aren't realistic." Perhaps. Still, the destructive fishing practices that have decimated tuna and cod have not declined worldwide, as Johnson suggests. Up to half the marine life caught by fishers is discarded, often dead, as bycatch, and vibrant coral forests are still being stripped bare by dragnets. Worm argues that fisheries based on ecosystems stripped of their biological diversity are especially prone to collapse. At least 29% of fished species have already collapsed, according to the study, and the trend is accelerating. So what's a fish eater to do? "Vote with your wallet," says Michael Sutton, who runs the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program in California. Since 1999, the aquarium has handed out pocket guides listing sustainably harvested seafood. The Marine Stewardship Council has partnered with corporations to similarly certify wild and farm-raised seafood. Some 370 products in more than two dozen countries bear the British group's "Fish Forever" label of approval. Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, among others, have made commitments to sell sustainably harvested seafood. But that's just a spit in the ocean unless consumers in Japan, India, China and Europe join the chorus for change. "If everyone in the U.S. started eating sustainable seafood," says Worldwatch Institute senior researcher Brian Halweil, "it would be wonderful, but it wouldn't address the global issues. We're at the very beginning of this." (more...)

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The major cause of ozone depletion is a.nitric acid b. sulfuric acid c. chlorofluorocarbons d. ultraviolet light 2. An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism is called a. competition b. symbiosis c. mutualism d. predation 3. The egg-laying mammals are called a. marsupials b. monotremes c. placental mammals d. insectivores 4. One of the greatest threats today to biological diversity is a. old-growth forests b. ozone depletion c. habitat destruction d. monoculture 5. Primary succession can begin after a. a forest fire b a lava flow c. farm land is abandoned d. a severe storm 6. The switching back and forth between diploid and haploid stage in a life cycle is called a. alternation of generations b. fusion of opposite mating types c. sexual reproduction d. asexual reproduction (more...)

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1. (Points: 4) Omi and Winant's main argument is this: a. That Race does not exist either in biology or society. It's an empty, meaningless category. b. Race is not biological, but is a social and cultural category that does not change over time. Race is the most fundemental form of human organization. c. Race is not biological, but is a social and cultural category that changes over time. d. Race is only used by racists intent upon getting rich. Save Answer 2. (Points: 4) Omi and Winant refer to the process by which social, economic and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings as __________????? a. Racism b. Racialization c. Deionization of Race. d. Racial Formation Save Answer 3. (Points: 4) One of the surprising things that students learned in the "Race-Power of an Illusion" transcript was that human gene variation is: a. Actually very limited. Humans from Africa, Asia and Europe are more alike than different. b. Shows that we are all mutated from a single woman, likely born in Sibera during the last major ice age. c. That there are specific "black" genes; specific "Jewish" genes; specific "white" genes and so on. Humans are amazingly diverse when considering our gene pool. d. Non-existant. There are no genetic differences at all among human populations. Save Answer 4. (Points: 4) The title of the film "Black Robe" refers to: a. The clothing worn by Father LaForgue b. The Judges in the Salem witchcraft trials. c. The clothing shared by Father LaForgue and Chomina d. The forests of the Iroqouis Save Answer 5. (Points: 4) In 1896, Frederick Hoffman wrote a book that argued that African Americans were: a. Gifted intellectually. b. Physically gifted: superior to whites. c. Intellectually similar to the Chinese. d. Physically inferior to whites. Save Answer 6. (Points: 4) The economies of Native American peoples: a. Was soley devoted to farming (agriculture) b. Varied by the available local enviornment. c. Were all hunting and gathering bands. d. Had no economy: their social organization was too primitive. Save Answer 7. (Points: 4) By 1550, this was the major division among Europeans? a. Race b. National Identity c. Ethnicity d. Religion Save Answer 8. (Points: 4) Started the Protestant Reformation in Germany in 1519? a. James Brown b. Pope Pious X c. Martin Luther d. King Henri VIII Save Answer 9. (Points: 4) In the film, Black Robe, Mestiqouit is his peoples: a. Chief b. War Leader c. Sachem d. Shaman Save Answer 10. (Points: 4) Animism is best described as: a. Religion that focuses on a single God-Monotheism. b. A form of Islam c. Links a religious system to the forces of nature. d. Is a type of Buddhism. Save Answer 11. (Points: 4) Which society did NOT practice a form of Animistic religion a. Many West African societies circa 1492 b. Ancient Greek and Roman societies c. Some Native American groups circa 1492 d. Spanish society circa 1492 Save Answer 12. (Points: 4) This Native American confederation gave significant roles to women: a. Algonquin b. Iroqouis c. Sioux d. Powhatan Confederacy Save Answer 13. (Points: 4) In the film "Black Robe" which is NOT a theme? a. The struggle between Algonquin speaking peoples and the Iroqouis b. The cultural similarities-although the forms are often different- between Europeans and Native Americans c. Europeans and Native Americans struggles to make sense of "the other." d. The manner in which the French conquered the Indians avanquished them Save Answer 14. (Points: 4) Americans owe a big dept to this Quaker who had a vision of a society that embraced diversity-especially religious diversity. a. King Henri VIII b. Saladin c. Martin Luther d. William Penn Save Answer 15. (Points: 4) Takaki and others make the point that Europeans in the 1500s and 1600s saw their primary identity, not in terms of being "white." Instead, this identity proved most important to Europeans. a. Their ethnic group b. racial group c. Religious grou: Christian in general. d. By social class: Lord, commoner, serf, etc. Save Answer 16. (Points: 4) What is the term for "a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences"? a. Cultural Pluralism b. Racism c. Jingoism d. The Federline doctrine. Save Answer 17. (Points: 4) Most African Americans can trace the bulk of their African ancestors to this area: a. West Africa b. North Africa c. Europe d. East Africa Save Answer (more...)

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1. (Points: 4) Omi and Winant's main argument is this: a. That Race does not exist either in biology or society. It's an empty, meaningless category. b. Race is not biological, but is a social and cultural category that does not change over time. Race is the most fundemental form of human organization. c. Race is not biological, but is a social and cultural category that changes over time. d. Race is only used by racists intent upon getting rich. Save Answer 2. (Points: 4) Omi and Winant refer to the process by which social, economic and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories, and by which they are in turn shaped by racial meanings as __________????? a. Racism b. Racialization c. Deionization of Race. d. Racial Formation Save Answer 3. (Points: 4) One of the surprising things that students learned in the "Race-Power of an Illusion" transcript was that human gene variation is: a. Actually very limited. Humans from Africa, Asia and Europe are more alike than different. b. Shows that we are all mutated from a single woman, likely born in Sibera during the last major ice age. c. That there are specific "black" genes; specific "Jewish" genes; specific "white" genes and so on. Humans are amazingly diverse when considering our gene pool. d. Non-existant. There are no genetic differences at all among human populations. Save Answer 4. (Points: 4) The title of the film "Black Robe" refers to: a. The clothing worn by Father LaForgue b. The Judges in the Salem witchcraft trials. c. The clothing shared by Father LaForgue and Chomina d. The forests of the Iroqouis Save Answer 5. (Points: 4) In 1896, Frederick Hoffman wrote a book that argued that African Americans were: a. Gifted intellectually. b. Physically gifted: superior to whites. c. Intellectually similar to the Chinese. d. Physically inferior to whites. Save Answer 6. (Points: 4) The economies of Native American peoples: a. Was soley devoted to farming (agriculture) b. Varied by the available local enviornment. c. Were all hunting and gathering bands. d. Had no economy: their social organization was too primitive. Save Answer 7. (Points: 4) By 1550, this was the major division among Europeans? a. Race b. National Identity c. Ethnicity d. Religion Save Answer 8. (Points: 4) Started the Protestant Reformation in Germany in 1519? a. James Brown b. Pope Pious X c. Martin Luther d. King Henri VIII Save Answer 9. (Points: 4) In the film, Black Robe, Mestiqouit is his peoples: a. Chief b. War Leader c. Sachem d. Shaman Save Answer 10. (Points: 4) Animism is best described as: a. Religion that focuses on a single God-Monotheism. b. A form of Islam c. Links a religious system to the forces of nature. d. Is a type of Buddhism. Save Answer 11. (Points: 4) Which society did NOT practice a form of Animistic religion a. Many West African societies circa 1492 b. Ancient Greek and Roman societies c. Some Native American groups circa 1492 d. Spanish society circa 1492 Save Answer 12. (Points: 4) This Native American confederation gave significant roles to women: a. Algonquin b. Iroqouis c. Sioux d. Powhatan Confederacy Save Answer 13. (Points: 4) In the film "Black Robe" which is NOT a theme? a. The struggle between Algonquin speaking peoples and the Iroqouis b. The cultural similarities-although the forms are often different- between Europeans and Native Americans c. Europeans and Native Americans struggles to make sense of "the other." d. The manner in which the French conquered the Indians avanquished them Save Answer 14. (Points: 4) Americans owe a big dept to this Quaker who had a vision of a society that embraced diversity-especially religious diversity. a. King Henri VIII b. Saladin c. Martin Luther d. William Penn Save Answer 15. (Points: 4) Takaki and others make the point that Europeans in the 1500s and 1600s saw their primary identity, not in terms of being "white." Instead, this identity proved most important to Europeans. a. Their ethnic group b. racial group c. Religious grou: Christian in general. d. By social class: Lord, commoner, serf, etc. Save Answer 16. (Points: 4) What is the term for "a condition in which minority groups participate fully in the dominant society, yet maintain their cultural differences"? a. Cultural Pluralism b. Racism c. Jingoism d. The Federline doctrine. Save Answer 17. (Points: 4) Most African Americans can trace the bulk of their African ancestors to this area: a. West Africa b. North Africa c. Europe d. East Africa Save Answer 18. (Points: 4) Which is not one of the three medieval Empires of Western Afric (more...)

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Biology; Ch 3 TEST 1. Organisms inhabiting tropical rain forests might include __________. a. lichen and caribou b. small trees and ravens c. monkeys and toucans d. bears and tortoises 2. Primary succession occurs on __________. a. burned areas in forests b. disturbed grasslands c. abandoned fields d. land exposed by glaciers 3. In the early stages of succession one might expect _________. a. simple food chains b. tremendous biodiversity c. tropical rain forests d. complex food webs 4. A climax community for a deciduous forest may contain __________. a. many conifers b. grasslands c. mostly ferns d. oak and maple trees 5. After a forest fire, __________ occurs. a. community death b. primary succession c. secondary succession d. a climax community 6. Which of the following is a terrestrial biome? a. coral reef b. desert c. pond d. ocean 7. Succession is __________ of an ecosystem. a. the creation b. the orderly changes c. the destruction d. the climax 8. The biome that has the greatest number of conifers is __________. a. the desert b. the tropical rain forest c. the grasslands d. the taiga 9. The optimum range of most organisms inhabiting marine biomes is __________. a. the photic zone b. its range of intolerance c. the aphotic zone d. ideal for the species 10. A primary abiotic limiting factor of a desert biome is __________. a. altitude b. water c. lack of plant life d. too much sand 11. The major difference between the tundra and taiga biomes is that tundra has _________. a. a more southern range b. permafrost c. longer summers d. more trees 12. Lichens, mosses and ferns are called __________. a. abiotic factors b. limiting species c. consumers d. pioneer species 13. The biome with warm temperatures and high rainfall is __________. a. the tropical rain forest b. the desert c. the temperate forest d. the grasslands 14. Communities in which fresh water and salt water mix are __________. a. marine b. planktonic c. usually deep d. estuaries 15. The conditions that dictate where an organism may live are called a. stress zones b. limiting factors c. the optimal range d. biological factors Please Answer questions useing A B C or D (more...)

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Nowadays the common person understands that the environment is at risk due to global warming. From car pollution, factories, to even flatulence weaken our ozone layer and increases global warming. Many politicians are promoting a new form of energy source to aid this epidemic. What they do not realize is that ?biofuels?, fuel produced from dead biological materials such as plants, are a greater contribution to global warming rather than a solution. The creation of biofuels adds to the ?deforestation?, harvesting agriculture to create biofuels, investments in the ?biofuel economy? that increases deforestation, and the product itself ?produces more emissions than gasoline?. A way to delay global warming is planting more trees to let them convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. Rather than planting more forest-life, we as humans are doing just the opposite. Finding another source of fuel causes us to destroy forests and transform them into ?palm oil farms?, farms that produce the agriculture necessary to generate biofuels. Not only does this affect the plant life, but also affects the harvests. With less products, prices rise and the continuation of deforestation might extinct the crop forever. As ?deforestation accounts for 20% of all current carbon emissions?, we must do something, since that is twenty more percent we do not need. The idea of biofuels has attracted many investors, which leads to more deforestation. Wealthy tycoons are participating in this business, as they think it is a solution to the global warming problem. Also on the other hand, it is making them a whole lot richer. Because of the large sum investments, any forest life on virtually any country is vulnerable to the production of biofuels. More deforestation results from a ?chain reaction? that if one country sells their product at a lower price, another country will undersell them to claim that business. With investments pouring in from left to right, it is a matter of time before there is no forest life left. With investors still investing in what they call a ?solution to global warming?, they still do not understand that the biofuels alone emit more carbon than the dreaded gasoline. There has even been a ?study in Science that concluded corn ethanol and soy biodiesel produce about twice the emissions of gasoline?. Sugar cane ethanol does emit so much carbon, but the overall emissions remains in the croplands, which if any case more crops are grown, it would release the carbon. Global warming is a topic to be reckoned with, as many of the ?proposed? solutions trying to slow down the process are actually the cause. Investors do not ?actually help?, but ?actually help increase deforestation?. Accounting for about one-fifth of the carbon emissions, deforestation will continue due to the fact of rich tycoons. The products alone are definitely a new source of energy, but only increase emissions. Grunwald?s statement, biofuels aren?t the solution to global warming?, but ?part of the problem?, shows that we must find another way. (more...)

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It seems that much money can be made by finding organisms in nature (medicinal plants in undiscovered parts of rain forests, for example), and then splicing the genes of a given genetic attribute (of organism A) into organism B (transgenics). Furthermore, although we know the genetic sequence of many organism, we still do not actually know what is the actual biological function of many of the encoded proteins (with potentially patentable attributes). Given that a transgenic organism (one that has desirable transgenic attributes) can be worthy of patent rights, and given that the source of those potentially desirable genes are essentially genomic information, then doesn't it seem that in the future biotech firms will fight over there pieces of sequence information as type of intellectual property? It seems especially likely when one needs (say a competing biotech firm) the genomic information in order to understand the full panorama of proteins (the first step in determining the patenable worthiness/justification and attributes of a genetic sequence). *** Many things that were entrusted to the US Supreme Court only latter to become completely reversed, one small example: Private property rights: The US Supreme Court (Antonin Scalia a few years ago) mandated that those particular house owners sell their property (Waterfront property in New England, at the developer?s price) to that developer?and the justification? To paraphrase Scalia, ?the needs of the community as a whole where better met by allowing that property to be developed, and in the process many more individuals found housing, than were met by those house owners being allowed to keep their property?. BTW this is in contrast to the GOVERNMENT taking a citizen?s property for the good of the country (National highway system, for example). Also, in the early 1980?s an American lawyer discovered a loophole in the United Nations charter that agreed that the Earth?s moon cannot be claimed?So with that loop hole, this lawyer claimed the moon and made millions selling plots of moon territory to people. *** Here?s my point, Just because something seems like ?common sense? or ?sacred? to our sensibilities really means little or nothing to the rich & powerful interest, AND those politically-connected Supreme Court appointees will eventually ?interpret? legality to favor ?progress? (the rich & powerful). *** Question: Doesn?t it seem inevitable that the Supreme Court will eventually come to the conclusion that organismal genetic information should be treated like intellectual property to be sold to the highest bidder (who would then make the most of the information in a profitable way by returning a product of market value, which is the reason why that firm WAS the highest bidder)??? Before you answer, consider the following: Also, many firms could participate from one organism genetic sequence if the code is parceled out to different firms (like land, for example). And so, by ?parceling out? (dividing the genetic sequence into intellectual property segments) many firms can participate in the unraveling of an organisms transgenic value (instead of just one) AND with the incentive that each firm will have patent protection for the transgenic products they do market, within their respective legally allotted sequences. (more...)

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A. a population of fruit flies B. all the cats in a city C. a population of bacteria D. your professor E. a plant species found in forests (more...)

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