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Blanchard's Grass [MultiFormat]
eBook by Simon Wood
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eBook Category: Horror/Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Dr. Blanchard thought he'd ride the world of starvation and in a way he did, just not the way he planned.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Dark Krypt Magazine, 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2008
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [25 KB]
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Words: 3345
Reading time: 9-13 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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"This is a very proud moment," Dr. David Blanchard said to a packed press conference outside the United Nations building. "My team and I have worked ten years for this moment. If we are successful, we believe our grass will have a global effect, stamping out world hunger in five to ten years."
"How will this be achieved?" a CNN reporter asked. "Our genetically modified grass is clever, possessing rudimentary intelligence. The seeds are genetically programmed to ascertain their environment and adapt through mutation." Fear flicked throughout the crowd at the mention of mutation. People should look the meaning of the word up in a dictionary, he thought. But Blanchard had been banking on that reaction. He wanted to grab their attention. He wanted them to sit up and take notice. He was changing the world and he wanted them to know it. "Mutation has been the catalyst we have been trying to achieve. We need the grass to think for itself without human intervention getting in the way. The major breakthrough with our grass is that no fertilizer or watering is needed. It seeks the nutrients from the environment around it. The results have been startling. Our grass is a determined little bugger. If it needed to get blood from a stone, I don't doubt it could get it." Blanchard waited for the polite laughter to die down before taking a question. "But haven't all your experiments taken place under lab conditions?" a BBC science correspondent remarked. Blanchard smiled. "Until now." "Until now, Dr. Blanchard?" "Yes. As we speak, my team is deployed in several locations around the world." "Where?"
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