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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
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Subject: Sic transit ingloria Trabi
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Date: 2 May 91 18:04:10 GMT
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I read a few days ago that an attempt is being made to genetically
engineer a bacterium that eats the body panels of the Trabant, which
are some kind of plastic/pressboard laminate kinda stuff that is 
apparently neither biodegradable nor recyclable. (The Trabant, of 
course, is the dreadful East German econo-car that is literally getting 
hard to give away now that superior Western products are available.)

Anybody know the details?

--Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"