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It's hard to see how. Earlier studies exposed corn ethanol as a carbon catastrophe; the EPA had to use extremely generous assumptions to produce scenarios in which it's even remotely attractive as a fuel alternative. In any case, the heavily subsidized corn-ethanol industries won't really be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stress-Testing Biofuels: How the Game Was Rigged | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Which may help explain why officials opened the congress with a manifesto that called on national and international authorities to "avoid adopting measures that unnecessarily hurt the pork sector." (Needless to say, the statement referred to the virus as H1N1, not swine flu.) A few days earlier, Russia had banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, congress participants across the board saw little cause for concern. "There's no reason to worry," said Manuel Mayner, whose company, Sepinum, is working with the Spanish government to launch a Ham Route which will guide tourists past some of the country's best ham-producing farms. "We've...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Instead, conference participants focused on more pressing concerns, like the benefits of phytate levels in the acorns the pigs eat, or how to promote ibérico ham abroad. But more than anything, they basked in the glory of their own product. American journalist Peter Kaminsky drew comparisons between the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Any surprises? TIME made Health Minister Barbara Hogan one of our 100 most influential people two weeks ago. In one of the more surprising moves, Hogan has been dropped from the health portfolio and moved to the less impressive public enterprises portfolio. As an AIDS activist in the country with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zuma's First Moves as South African President | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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