AL GORE'S GREEN SUPPORT, OLDFIELD'S HONOR, SOME FLIGHT HUMOR
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Wednesday, March 15, 2000
Friend of Al? Recently the radical environmental group, Earth Liberation Front, took credit for breaking into a University of Minnesota lab and uprooting about 800 oat plants that were part of a genetic engineering experiment aimed at improving plant resistance to disease. And the Minnesota attack was relatively mild compared with the New Year's Eve fire at Michigan State University's Agriculture Hall, which devastated a campus landmark and did $400,000 damage -- also in the name of combating genetic engineering. ELF likewise claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day fire that destroyed the Oregon headquarters of Boise Cascade, a paper manufacturer accused of having "ravaged the forests of the Pacific Northwest."
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