Vernon Bowman, an Indiana farmer, bought a mix of soybean seeds from a grain elevator, planted them in a late-season crop and used seeds harvested from that crop to plant his late crop the following season.
With Rogers Marvel Architects, he plans a huge glass elevator planted with bamboo to carry visitors to the plaza, 35 feet above the street, where they will step into a Hudson River landscape -- glacial hummocks, grasslands, honey locusts -- and go ice skating.
In an unanimous ruling written by Justice Elena Kagan, the court ruled that the farmer, Vernon Bowman, had infringed on Monsanto's patent for its GM soybeans when he bought some of those seeds from a local grain elevator and planted them for a second, late-season crop.
If there's any stretch of this river that doesn't hum and throb — with barges, tugs, grain elevators, power plants, coal depots, refineries — I didn't see it.
"He got a slight attitude," said Mr. Plant, an elevator engineer.
He is adding two underground floors, with 1,594 square feet of new space, to include a swimming pool, cigar lounge, wine cellar, elevator, cinema and a plant room with a rainwater harvesting tank.
It is still a major Russian port on the Black Sea, with a naval base, shipbuilding yards, a refrigeration plant, grain elevators, and an oil-pipeline terminal.
doormen, concierge and staffed elevator; 600-sq.-ft planted terrace, hardwood floors, 2 exposures, health club and pool in building; common charge $680 ,taxes $5,592; listed at $585,000 , 2weeks on market (broker: Corcoran Group) WEST SIDE $426,000622 West 62nd Street 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 733-sq.-ft.
They also allowed their crops to be mixed up with regular corn supplies at grain elevators and processing plants.
Others claimed that the Y2K bug would show the folly of computer dependence through disruptions in automated teller machines, power plants, elevators, airplanes and grocery line check-out stations.
