Dowell -- considered as much of a landmark ruling in the desegregation saga as the 1954 Brown and 1968 Green rulings, Douglas said.

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Just a few of the representative green indexed REITs include Douglas Emmett (DEI), Government Properties Income Trust (GOV), Piedmont Office Realty Trust (PDM), Boston Properties (BXP), Franklin Street Properties (FSP), Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN), Vornado Realty Trust (VNO), SL Green Realty (SLG), Ashford Hospitality Trust (AHT), Kilroy Realty (KRC), Washington REIT (WRE), and Cousins Properties (CUZ).

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In the early 1990s, a Columbia professor named Martin Chalfie heard that another researcher, Douglas Prasher, was trying to locate the gene for a green fluorescent protein (GFP) found in jellyfish.

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