Aliens Among Ustesttest This isn’t the movies. It’s real life.
Surrounding you left and right. But you don’t see it — any more
than Dr. Kate Lloyd and her team of Norwegian expeditionaries
recognize The Thing. Through October, the local aliens have
gilded the countryside, improving your vista as you travel
Maryland highways. Lately, the gold has been fading to sere
brown. In the last days of October, farmers will drive their
combines into the fields, harvesting soybeans that they hope
will bring as much as $15 a bushel at market. This summer, about
485,000 acres of soybeans grew in Maryland. Soybeans are the
state’s largest field planting. Farmers in five Southern
Maryland counties, including Jeff Griffith in Anne Arundel and
Walt Wells in Calvert, planted 39,000 acres in 2009. Nearly all
those beans are genetically modified organisms created in the
test tube to improve on nature. Corn, Maryland’s second biggest
planting, now also grows from genetically modified seed. So does
canola and alfalfa. Since the mid