Sentences with phrase «abandoned field station»

Improvising in an abandoned field station in Mexico, Borlaug developed new varieties of wheat that could resist a devastating fungal disease — clashing with bureaucrats along the way.

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If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

If an abandoned subway station doesn't sound very scary how about one that's built beneath the ruins of a graveyard, a Potter's Field next door to a former asylum?

The first thing you might notice here is a huge field of giant clams outside the Orpheus Island Research Station squirting seawater during low tide, the result of an abandoned clam - farming experiment.