Word: chipping
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...fuel for the world as well? "Ah, now you've hit the nail on the head." Maggi says the biofuel boom is making him richer, but it's also making it harder to feed children and save trees. "There are many mouths to feed, and nobody's invented a chip to create protein without growing crops," says his pal Homero Pereira, a congressman who is also the head of Mato Grosso's farm bureau. "If you don't want us to tear down the forest, you better pay us to leave...
...trouble is that even if there were enough financial incentives to keep the Amazon intact, high commodity prices would encourage deforestation elsewhere. And government mandates to increase biofuel production are going to boost commodity prices, which will only attract more investment. Until someone invents that protein chip, it's going to mean the worst of everything: higher food prices, more deforestation and more emissions...
...action yesterday.“Defensively, we were doing much more of a cohesive job [in the second half],” senior midfielder Natalie Curtis said. “We were playing with a lot more pride at that point after a disappointing first half. We wanted to chip away at the score.”But the Crimson offense never came around.Junior midfielder Sarah Bancroft started the second half comeback attempt for Harvard with a score off a feed from Martin five minutes in, cutting the Wildcat lead to single digits at 11-2. But New Hampshire responded...
...excitable as a six-year-old waiting in line for a SpongeBob ice pop. Thumping cuts like “I’m One of Those Girls” gained the Midland, Ontario trio loads of attention in the blogosphere, and tours with indie heavyweights Hot Chip and Peter, Björn and John have helped them establish a pretty sizeable fan base for such a young band. Their sophomore effort and first full album, “Red, Yellow & Blue,” is a meatier work than its predecessor, not only in length (it?...
Daily missions by U.S. and Iraqi troops continue in Mosul, a pivotal hub for insurgents operating throughout Iraq. Petraeus says U.S. and Iraqi forces are eliminating one insurgent roadside bomb team a night and taking out key insurgent leaders. "You've got to chip away at the enemy," he says. "Al-Qaeda knows they can't win without Baghdad, but they can't survive without Mosul...