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November 1998

Rice Researchers Turn Up The Heat
30/11/98, Eastern Daily Press
A research centre in Norwich, £1.3 million has been spent creating three 18 square metre slices of South East Asia.

The Global View
07/11/98, New Scientist
Climate negotiators from more than 150 nations are slugging it out this week and next in Buenos Aires to try and make legal and scientific sense of the commitments to cut emissions of greenhouse gases that they made last year in Kyoto.

Gene-Altered Foods Face Uphill Battle In EU
05/11/98, Journal Of Commerce
Consumers in the European Union are far less accepting of genetically modified products than North American buyers, speakers at a Canadian Wheat Board conference said this week.

Monsanto Responds To Michael Pollan's Essay "Playing God In The Garden" (New York Times Magazine, 25/10/98)
04/11/98, Monsanto Company (Statement)
We understand that a technology with the power and the promise of biotechnology should and will stimulate concern and debate. But we also believe that such a discussion requires a degree of objectivity and a commitment to the facts.