Concerns vented."Venting Concerns: Exploring and protecting deep-sea communities" (SN: 10/7/06, p. 232) barely scratches the surface of the problem. What is stopping someone from gene splicing splicing /splic·ing/ (spli´sing) 1. the attachment of individual DNA molecules to each other, as in the production of chimeric genes. 2. RNA s. the disease of choice onto heat-loving bacterium bacterium /bac·te·ri·um/ (bak-ter´e-um) pl. bacte´ria [L.] in general, any of the unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms that commonly multiply by cell division, lack a nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and possess a cell ? Something that can live near the 600[degrees]F of melting lead will certainly survive the standard hospital-sterilization process. D.J. KAVA, BEAUMONT, TEXAS Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas and is within the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 113,866. The statement "2 tons of ore from ocean sites should yield as much copper as 80 million tons of material mined on land" can't be correct. That's 40 million to 1. No one mines that kind of ore. TERRENCE KERWIN, SILVERTON, COLO Colo Colorado (old style state abbreviation) COLO Columbus, Ohio COLO Co-Location COLO Colonial National Historic Park (US National Park Service) COLO Cost Of Living Option . The statement should have been that 2 million tons of ocean ore would yield that much copper. |
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