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Newspaper
Brownfield News
Location
Brownfield, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 2000
Page
6
Tech columnist Eric Spellmann advocates avoiding floppy disks for long term storage. He reviews Zip and Jaz drives and rewritable CD options, compares costs and capacities, notes drive reliability, and predicts growth in flash cards as moving parts fail. He urges readers to adopt more reliable offline storage and mentions CD-R and CD-RW possibilities.
Monsanto seeks a one year extension of Bt cotton registration with EPA due to review time limits, while pushing toward a long term registration for 2002. The firm also extends its technology rebate deadline to July 15 to aid drought stricken Southeast cotton growers, and notes D and PL seed programs aid replant and crop destruction for transgenic varieties. FCC survey shows about 4 million acres planted to cotton in High Plains, with some counties missing and drought threatening further losses.
Jack Maguire reviews Texas history through Gen. Robert E. Lee’s ties to the state. He recounts Lee’s 1845 Texas assignment, San Antonio residence, Camp Cooper stay, 1860 San Antonio command, and 1862 to 1865 Civil War leadership before Virginia offered Washington College presidency. The piece weaves related notes on The University of Texas, hoodlum wagon lore, and 1844 mosquito scares involving German settlers.
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