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TRANSGENIC CROPS: Britain Opts for Brave New GM World
Gretchen Vogel
After 5 years of acrimonious debate, the U.K. government on 9 March gave a qualified thumbs-up for commercial planting of the first genetically modified crop--GM maize--on British soil.