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...sticky scourge. Graciela Padua, a food scientist at the University of Illinois, in Urbana, has developed a biodegradable gum made of zein, a corn derivative. It's costly to make but doesn't adhere to surfaces. And its flavor? "It tastes plain," Padua admits, "but you can blow big bubbles." --By Jeremy Caplan
...Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamun, which appear to rule out foul play in his early death; in Cairo. The C.T. scan, for which Tut's body was removed from its sarcophagus for the first time since its discovery in 1922, revealed no sign of head wounds, ending speculation that a blow to the head had ended the 19-year-old King's brief reign circa 1352 B.C. "We don't know how the King died, but we are sure it was not murder," said Egyptian antiquities expert Zahi Hawass. "We should not disturb the King anymore...
...Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi, it seems, and he's likely to blow a fuse...
...Morwood is seeking a senior figure from the center to sign the protest letter. By March 11, he'd found no one prepared to do so. The center's director, Toni Djubianto, says such action would only make matters worse. "It might light a fire," he says. "It might blow up." Unlike the fragile bones, the dispute is unlikely to be laid to rest for very long...
...small audience, obliged good naturedly, struggling, upon Schwartz’s instructions, to “blow air through mouth without pitch,” in “U.S. Indian war-whoop fashion...