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Cloning better rubber plants.
U.S. News & World Report
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February 3, 1986
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Using genetic-engineering techniques, scientists have cloned a superior strain of a North American desert plant that has the potential of making the U.S. self-sufficient in natural rubber.
A relative of the sunflower family, the guayule plant produces a substance almost identical to that of tropical rubber trees. Until now, the shrub has grown too erratically to have any commercial potential. But the new strain can overcome this obstacle by producing enough seedlings to be harvested for rubber.
Reporting this finding to the National Science Foundation's ...
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Charles H. Davis: painter of poetic moods.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...sets Davis's work apart. Charles Davis was born in Amesbury...French Barbizon artists Jean Francois Millet, Theodore Rousseau, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, and Charles Francois Daubigny, whose paintings he had admired...
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Escape into nature.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly
; ...these artists--including Charles Francois Daubigny and Jean-Francois Millet...the sublimity of nature. Charles Francois Daubigny The Rising Moon over the...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Like Corot, Charles Francois Daubigny retreated regularly from...
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Inside Travel: Van Gogh's final sanctuary KATE SHEPPARD visits the town outside Paris where the artist spent his last days
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...The former home of Van Gogh, Daubigny and Cezanne is a rural island...talent comes in the "Atelier Daubigny", the former home of the pre- Impressionist painter, Charles-Francois Daubigny. An inspiration for many of...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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THE ART OF APPRAISAL THOSE IN THE KNOW TELL THE CURIOUS WHAT THEIR TREASURES ARE WORTH.(Arts and Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...scene bearing a frame claiming it was by Charles Francois Daubigny (French, 19th century) - wasn't Daubigny and was worth considerably less than...The flow of the paint is wrong. Daubigny's strokes tended to move across the...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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`MASTER PRINTS' SHOW SERVES AS MASTERFUL DISPLAY OF ART ALBANY INSTITUTE'S OFFERING SPANS THE CENTURIES.(SHOWTIME)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...separate rooms. An example is an 1860 etching by Charles-Francois Daubigny, ``The Large Sheep Paddock,'' showing a view...by the Barbizon group, Jean Corot, a friend of Daubigny's. ``Remembrance of Ostia,'' which shows...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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My walk on the wild side with Van Gogh; PORTENT OF TRAGEDY: The foreboding picture Van Gogh painted in Auvers shortly before shooting himself in a wheat field on the edge of the town. Right: Kirk Douglas starring as Van Gogh in the 1956 film Lust For Life.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...thatched-roof cottages he lovedto paint, and of Charles-Francois Daubigny's garden. Van Gogh had two reasons for coming...One was that he passionatelyadmired the work of Daubigny, a landscape painter who settled in Auvers in the1860s...
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Currier's `Corot to Monet' presents a full palette
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the way. Consider, for example, the paintings of Charles-Francois Daubigny. The Impressionists, younger by a generation, borrowed Daubigny's liberated paint handling. But he also borrowed...
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The Napoleon III rooms in the Musee du Louvre, Paris.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...painter and stained-glass maker Charles Laurent Marechal de Metz (1801...the Louvre and Tuileries under Francois I, Catherine de Medicis, Henri...were not well known except for Charles Francois Daubigny (1817-1878), who decorated...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1806; Georg Buchner, playwright, 1837; Bernard Barton, poet, 1849; Charles-Francois Daubigny, landscape painter, 1878; Charles Blondin (Jean-Francois Gravelet), tight-rope walker, 1897; Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty, conductor...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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'MUSEUM WITHIN A MUSEUM'.(LIVING)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ...portraits of Anna Sinton and Charles Phelps Taft. Ceramics: A pair...large enamel portrait of Duke Francois de Cleves of Nevers, are also...seen in late morning light and Charles-Francois Daubigny's serene ''A River Scene...
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