Word: cornelis
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...greatest harvest spectacle the world has ever seen is rushing toward its finish this week. Half a million thundering combines with dust devils spiraling like proud sentinels above their clattering jaws are cutting through 140 million acres of U.S. corn and soybean fields, night and day, lifting a golden bounty that will break every record in the books...
...Sometimes the food's actually better. The muffins are warmer," she says, gesturing with the half-eaten corn muffin in her hand...
Genetically engineered foods can be as exotic as tomatoes with flounder genes, corn with firefly genes or potatoes with wax moth genes...
...party headed by Roosevelt, whose campaign is virtually broke, it was significantly more spartan. The Democratic gubernatorial nominee offered only corn chips and new vegetables to exhausted campaign staffers and volunteers...
...Giant corn? Rosier rosebushes? Fast-growing forests? All possible in the near future, according to scientists who say they've isolated the gene that controls plants' natural growth hormone. The Michigan State University study, to be published Friday in the journal Science, says manipulating the gene could let farmers make plants and their fruit bigger -- without the chemical sprays they now rely on for boosting growth...