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...been a trick of the pen, but his newest book, “Peeling the Onion,” certainly made me feel as if we had switched bodies and situations for a moment. Perhaps it was because jaw surgery had left me incapable of intermaxillary motion, unable to chew and unable to eat real food, that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare...
...folk-protest genre pioneered by his idol Woody Guthrie, then ditched that genre for songs of betrayal and alienation, then went electric and created folk rock. That's four careers in four years: more public-persona reinventions than Madonna could manage, and surely enough for four actors to chew...
...find something - the kids made monkeys of the apes. In one test, for example, researchers showed both groups how to open up a plastic tube to get at a treat. The children learned by watching, and opened it as the adults did. The apes tended to just chew the tube open. In another, researchers would hide the treat while the test subjects were present. Then the subjects would have to find it, with the only clue being that the scientists would look toward the hiding place. Again, the kids beat the apes soundly...
...backed Yuma Ethanol, whose investors include farmers, ranchers and other businesspeople from the area, is scheduled to open in July. Another plant is scheduled to break ground later this year, according to Dallas-based Panda Energy International. Together, these operations, which represent $250 million in capital investment, plan to chew up at least 55 million bu. of corn each year and pump out 200 million gal. of what President George W. Bush, Corn Belt politicians, A-list investors and farmers hope will cut the U.S.'s reliance on foreign oil, clean up the air, slow global warming, promote rural...
...This season, the oxen sniffed contemplatively at several of the trays. One then wandered away from the plentiful buffet. As the crowd held its collective breath, the other finally deigned to chew half the corn on offer before it, too, moseyed off. The verdict was grim: a drought, most likely, since no water was drunk, and a poor rice harvest to boot...