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...Congress quietly returned to work this week after a three-week vacation, the House advanced its version of the "Freedom to Farm" bill, a major piece of agriculture legislation with the potential to roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. The bill would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven-year program of declining, fixed payments. Subsidies of peanuts and sugar remain in place, to the chagrin of some members on both sides of the aisle. House leaders have limited the number of amendments...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...
...potential Dole supporters in Iowa admit they have lost interest. At one point Woodbury County G.O.P. chairman Roger Linn thought of serving as Dole's County chair, but now he is no longer considering him. "Dole did a terrible job during the response," says Linn, who raises soybeans and corn. "He looked like an old man. He reminds me of me. I'm 62, and I let the kids do the work on the farm." Even some who think Dole is being tarnished unfairly admit that TV is too important a medium to dismiss, and it is clearly not Dole...
...been long in corn instead of Turkey, we would have been up 59.8%, as corn outperformed the Dow Jones industrials by nearly double in 1995. Zero-coupon bonds did even better, up 63.1%. At least we avoided coffee beans, down 43.8%, and Taiwan equities, down 30.6%. So there are some reasons to be thankful, and just as many to be sorry...
Olestra, however, could make guilt-free eating a pleasure. It doesn't just substitute for fat. It is fat, with all the flavor-enhancing, palate-soothing smoothness of corn or canola oil. And unlike any of the half a dozen or so fat substitutes currently available, olestra doesn't break down when it's used for frying. That means fat-free potato chips, French fries and maybe even Cajun feasts that taste like the real thing could someday be available to the general public...