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  "thread": {
    "id": 2374,
    "subject": "Plant Engineering",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2000-08-24T09:02:37+00:00",
    "last": "2000-08-24T11:59:41+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0190@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greene, Carlton",
        "address": "cgreene2 at hunton.com"
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      "date": "2000-08-24T09:02:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Plant Engineering",
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          "text": "Can anyone provide some background on the journal Gene Wolfe edits\n(edited?), \"Plant Engineering\" ?  In particular, is it \"plant engineering\"\nas in horticulture, or as in industrial facilities?"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0191@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Kevin J. Maroney",
        "address": "kmaroney at ungames.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-24T11:26:42+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Plant Engineering",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0190@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "At 09:02 AM 8/24/00 -0400, Carlton Greene wrote:\nCan anyone provide some background on the journal Gene Wolfe edits\n(edited?), \"Plant Engineering\" ?  In particular, is it \"plant engineering\"\nas in horticulture, or as in industrial facilities?"
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          "text": "Industrial facilities. Before he retired to become a full-time writer in\nthe 1980s, Wolfe was a \"food engineer\" for Proctor and Gamble and then a\nstaff writer for PE. One of Wolfe's PE articles--a vocabulary for\nrobotics--is reprinted in his Boskone book, _Plan[e]t Engineering_; his\nbackground shows through in things like the lecture about tallus design in\n_Exodus from the Long Sun_. \n\n_Plant Engineering Magazine_'s home page is at \n<http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/planteng/>. "
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          "text": "Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://www.nyrsf.com"
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    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0029-0192@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Greene, Carlton",
        "address": "cgreene2 at hunton.com"
      },
      "date": "2000-08-24T11:59:41+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (urth) Plant Engineering",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0029-0191@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Thanks!  I assumed that was the case from his poetic descriptions of\nengineering concepts, but given Dorcas and her flowers, and a hundred other\nexamples, he seems to know his plant matter as well.\n\n-----Original Message-----\nFrom: Kevin J. Maroney [mailto:kmaroney at ungames.com]\nSent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 11:27 AM\nTo: urth at lists.best.com\nSubject: Re: (urth) Plant Engineering"
        },
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          "text": "At 09:02 AM 8/24/00 -0400, Carlton Greene wrote:\nCan anyone provide some background on the journal Gene Wolfe edits\n(edited?), \"Plant Engineering\" ?  In particular, is it \"plant engineering\"\nas in horticulture, or as in industrial facilities?"
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          "text": "Industrial facilities. Before he retired to become a full-time writer in\nthe 1980s, Wolfe was a \"food engineer\" for Proctor and Gamble and then a\nstaff writer for PE. One of Wolfe's PE articles--a vocabulary for\nrobotics--is reprinted in his Boskone book, _Plan[e]t Engineering_; his\nbackground shows through in things like the lecture about tallus design in\n_Exodus from the Long Sun_. \n\n_Plant Engineering Magazine_'s home page is at \n<http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/planteng/>. "
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          "text": "Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at ungames.com\nKitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction\nhttp://www.nyrsf.com\n\nworks"
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