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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1815)	3/25/1999 3:14:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 2539

Dan, excellent article! <eom>

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1815)	3/25/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: Professor Dotcomm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2539

What a superb nugget of pure gold you have mined out of the New Statesman. This should be required reading for everyone following agribusiness. It hit the button time and time again and some quotes I have carefully docketed for future plagiarization. Incidentally (and this has nothing to do with the subject) it mentions Richard Dawkins. This guy, a zoologist professor at Oxford, wrote a book years ago which I take pleasure rereading each year. It is called 'River of Eden'. A tremendous read. Perhaps Amazon has it. (Although I was up at Oxford years ago, I am not on commission for the sales of this book!)

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1815)	3/25/1999 3:19:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2539

Location of petunia field trials secret March 24 1999 The Press, New Zealand WANGANUI -- Field trials of genetically modified petunias are about to start in Manawatu, but the Crop and Food Research Institute says it will not disclose the location of the trial. Crop and Food experiments with genetically modified potatoes at Lincoln in Canterbury were vandalised earlier this month, after the location of the potatoes was disclosed in an application to the Environmental Risk Management Authority. Institute spokesman Howard Bezar said the project was specifically designed to field-test petunia plants genetically modified to produce new and different flower and foliage colours. The trial has been approved by Erma and funded by the horticultural industry and individual companies, but has also received some public funding as a "public-good" science project. -- NZPA press.co.nz:80/12/99032429.htm

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1815)	3/25/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 2539

Ex-Leader of Italy To Take Helm of EU Commission Thursday, March 25, 1999 THE WASHINGTON POST PARIS -- Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was chosen Wednesday as the next president of the European Commission, the European Union's executive body, easing a grave institutional crisis at a pivotal period in the 15-nation EU's history. Prodi, 59, replaces Jacques Santer of Luxembourg, who along with the 19 other commissioners resigned following a scathing independent report that accused them of tolerating fraud and corruption within the commission. The Prodi nomination was announced by EU leaders at a special summit in Berlin. He already had emerged as the front-runner. "Prodi has the ideal profile. He has the political experience," said German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Prodi himself said: "It's a great challenge and a great proof of confidence in Italy." The European Parliament will meet this spring to approve Prodi's appointment. The rest of the commission will then be chosen. Agreement on Prodi solves a tricky problem for the EU: finding someone credible, honest and politically adept enough to steer the world's largest economic bloc through a difficult time. In the next few months, the EU must reform the way it collects its $93 billion budget and what it spends the money on. That is the subject of this week's Berlin summit, and chances for success are not considered overwhelming. At the same time, the EU must prepare to include eastern and central European countries in the next decade or so. And it is engaged in a messy trade war with the United States over banana-import rules, with more conflict looming over imports of American hormone-treated beef, restrictions on jet-engine noise and imports of American genetically modified food. The most important issue for Prodi now is to resolve a crisis of public trust in the EU and its commission, which oversees EU policy on such issues as trade, agriculture and transportation. The EU has always worked as a top-down institution. Its 626-member parliament, whose members have been directly elected only since 1979, was until recently relatively powerless and rudderless. But the parliament has found a potent political target in the financial misdeeds and opaque accounting of the commission as revealed in the report. With Europe-wide elections scheduled for June, the legislative branch is expected to keep up pressure on the commission. Prodi is an affable former economics professor who speaks excellent English. He leaves behind in Italy a new political party he recently created to challenge Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, a former ally.