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...ethanol-based fuel to give it range. The plug-in hybrid could run for short distances on batteries charged by the same grid that powers our home appliances. On longer drives, it would use a fuel mix of 80% ethanol--alcohol, in the U.S. made mainly from corn--and 20% gas. Given that half the cars on the road travel fewer than 20 miles a day, such hybrids would travel mostly on grid-charged battery power. The rest of the time, those plug-in hybrids would run primarily on alcohol, not imported...
Vary your diet with green and orange vegetables, and starchy ones like corn...
...wills between the Executive and Legislative branches of the U.S. Government. Soviet Merchant Seaman Miroslav Medvid, 25, had inadvertently created this political uproar on Oct. 24 by leaping 40 feet from the Soviet freighter Marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near New Orleans. When the ship, laden with corn, finally pulled away from its dock last Saturday afternoon with Medvid aboard, a sad personal and political saga that had lasted for more than two weeks apparently drifted off to an unhappy ending...
...inept handling of the case set off a storm on Capitol Hill. Since corn shipments were involved, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued a subpoena ordering Medvid to appear before the committee. Helms' aides served the paper on the ship's captain, but Soviet officials announced that they would not comply. In fact, the Senate committee had no practical way to enforce its subpoena, and the ship's departure showed the futility of trying to clean up a diplomatic mess through congressional intervention...
Biology had its share of the agenda. Corn and garden cress seeds were tucked into soil to test the influence of microgravity on plant growth. Frog eggs were fertilized to determine if low gravity alters the development of organs responsible for balance. At one point a fruit fly escaped from its container and was quickly dubbed Willy. Later the astronauts found the ill-fated drosophila dead in a filter. Tongue in cheek, officials at Oberpfaffenhofen handed out an obituary for "our bold little astronaut...