Even when firms such as Unilever manage to find a source of, say, non-modified soya to put in their products, it tends to get contaminated with genetically modified stuff since there is so much of it about.

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The Royal Society's experts looked at data gathered since 1998, when a scare about the effects on rats of experimental genetically modified potatoes appeared to put the British public off the whole idea.

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Like Yeti Town, Zynga allegedly copied the basic gameplay from EA and then put its own lightly modified UI elements on top of that gameplay.

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Specifically, the government would put itself on the hook if modified home loans default again.

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Schering-Plough thinks its ace in the hole may be a modified version of Claritin that has already been put into the FDAs approval pipeline.

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This ultimately built the Shenzhou series of spacecraft and put them on top of a booster modified from one of China's unmanned Long March satellite-launching rockets.

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But Dell'Orto warned that the other option Congress is considering, a modified version of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, could put American troops in danger.

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More worrisome still, the tax would also be leveled at those folks who have their underwater loans modified, a process that reduces the principal so that the homeowner can better manage payments and stay put.

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