His boyhood had been spent in and out of his father's ice-cream plant, and in 1935 he started such a plant himself, the Wilber Farms Dairy in Buffalo.

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In a change of plans, however, von Stauffenberg decided to plant the bomb himself.

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Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Delaware himself for the plant reopening.

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Last September, Fidel Castro himself announced that work on the plant had been suspended indefinitely.

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The night he kills himself, Willy walks outside to plant some seeds in his garden.

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James, a native of Oconee County, recently found himself laid off from a local plant after punching in for 28 years.

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Edgar Alvarez hooked over a cross for David Suazo, who could only plant his header wide, and then Alvarez himself drew a superb one-handed save from Swiss goalkeeper Diego Benaglio.

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He set fire to an electric guitar alone onstage in front of a stunned crowd at the opening of Clarion Hotel Union Brygge in Drammen. (The newest addition to his empire opens Wednesday in Oslo, a luxurious art hotel named The Thief.) In Britain in 2002 he chained himself to the gate of a waste treatment plant to protest nuclear power.

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In 2008, authorities said a man in Las Vegas may have accidentally poisoned himself with ricin that he had made from a backyard castor plant.

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Chris Somerville, the Stanford plant geneticist who has been tapped to run the big project, is himself the co-founder of two biotech firms that will work in the same field as the institute.

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