WILLAMETTE VALLEY, Ore.--The sugar beets growing in farmer Tim Winn's fields do not look menacing. But other farmers in Oregon's fertile Willamette Valley fear the beets could devastate their crops. Winn's sugar beets have been genetically modified to allow them to survive application of [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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