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View from the Inside: FY 2000 Budget Request--The Office of Science budget request is an increase of between 4 and 5% over the 1999 budget. The director of the Office of Science, Martha Krebs characterized the request by saying "the bottom line…is a pretty good one."
Extremophiles--the Ultramarathoners of the Microbe World--Toxic waste sites can poison or kill more commonly found organisms--those that require oxygen for survival. However, microbes that can live anaerobically (without oxygen), called extremophiles, tolerate the extreme conditions found in underground waste sites.
Plant Information Superhighway--Plants may have their own "information superhighway" that uses RNA molecules to send long-distance signals throughout the organism. The new finding provides insight into a plant transport system that might control gene expression in distant cells and could also provide new clues about how information travels among plant parts such as leaves and flowers.
Working Science: Special Remembrance--Glenn Seaborg -- The Richland ACS Section remembers Glenn Seaborg's last trip to Hanford. Seaborg's attendance at the celebration of the historic Section's 50th Anniversary (1948 to 1998) made it truly golden. Seaborg died February 25, 1999, at the age of 86.
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