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...this reign of consumerist psycho-terror cannot last forever. Hearken closely, Mother Harvard: Rebecca's blue corn tortillas alone will not sate...
...cleaning up the deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes $100 of taxpayers' money to get a dollar where it's needed...
...Charles County, Missouri, the latest disaster victims are applying for assistance. Farmer Marie Oldenberg, 74, spent an afternoon in a local high school filling out government forms. She and her husband were hoping to earn money for retirement this year, but the flood destroyed their entire crop of corn, beans and wheat. "The government forms asked lots of questions -- what our income was, if we had insurance and how much money we had in the bank," says Oldenberg, who is not optimistic about getting her losses covered. "Maybe at least we'll get reimbursed for our motel bill...
...typical Maya family (averaging five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate -- or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole -- and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven poles covered with dried mud. Meals of corn, squash and beans, supplemented with the occasional turkey or rabbit, were probably eaten...
...children's skulls: they liked to flatten them (although this may have simply been the inadvertent result of strapping babies to cradle boards) or squeeze them into a cone. Some Mayanists speculate that the conehead effect was the result of trying to approximate the shape of an ear of corn...