" Through his journalistic approach in his long form feature piece, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer is able to piece together the chilling story of Chris McCandless and give a better understanding of this self-made vagabond through extensive research and Krakauer's own personal connection with McCandless. Krakauer carries over his journalistic style from his article in Outside to the long form feature Into the Wild in the way he presents his highly thorough investigation. ... Krakauer's painstaking effort to prove that it was not H. mackenzii rather H. alpinum that killed McCandles...

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One possibility is that transgenic crops would spread from fields into forest or other wild lands and there become environmental nuisances, or worse. A further risk is that transgenic plants might cross-pollinate with neighboring wild plants, producing "superweeds" or other invasive or destructive varieties in the wild....

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