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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!yuma!zappa!wallacen
  3. From: wallacen@ColoState.EDU (nathan wallace)
  4. Subject: Genetically Engineered Microbes in Real Use?
  5. Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
  6. Message-ID: <Jan05.205254.60138@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
  7. Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:52:54 GMT
  8. Reply-To: wallacen@ColoState.EDU
  9. References: <C0Cu8n.DHA.1@cs.cmu.edu>
  10. Nntp-Posting-Host: zappa.cs.colostate.edu
  11. Organization: Colorado State University -=- Computer Science Dept.
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  13.  
  14. I recall hearing on Chicken Noodle News that a bacterium (*Chlostridium*
  15. I suspect, they'll eat virtually anything, including those buried polystyrene
  16. bottles which were supposed to last ten thousand years and instead lasted
  17. five or so...) has been developed to help in some types of oil spills and
  18. was successfully used in a spill near Galveston a few years ago. Anyone
  19. know more about this?
  20.  
  21. ps. *Chlostridium* are anaerobic soil bacteria, for which we should all be
  22. **very** thankful, I suspect.
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  26. |                                              |             / /\       |
  27. |  Nathan F. Wallace                           |      ______/ /_/___    |
  28. |  email: wallacen@beethoven.cs.colostate.edu  |     / ____  ______ \   |
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  31. |  Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, and are |   | || / /_/_____      |
  32. |              not those of any other person,  |   | ||/_______  /\     |
  33. |              organization, or supreme being. |   | ||\______/ / /     |
  34. |                                              |   | ||      / / /      |
  35. +----------------------------------------------+    \ \_____/ /_/__/\   |
  36. |  "War is the art of deception."              |     \_____  _______/|  |
  37. |                                 Sun Tzu      |      \___/ /\______|/  |
  38. |                                              |          \_\/          |
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