Word: cornfield
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...Nicolas Cage reportedly recently got into a bidding war over the remains of a $276,000 Asian T-rex - the paleontological paradise of Chaoyang is under threat. Farmers and dealers are hard at work disturbing potentially valuable sites in the race to find specimens to sell. In a cornfield outside of town, farmers have sliced open an entire hill. Layers of earth, each covering deposits millions of years old, protrude naked, leaving only broken slabs of rock. Along the road back into town, farmers ride bicycles with shovels lashed to their backs, returning home after a hard day's treasure...
...corn-ethanol critics have doubts about the fuel as a short- and long-term energy solution. As U.S. vehicles burn through 9 million bbl. of gasoline a day, cornfield Cassandras fear that the home-brewed replacement may be only a pricey stepping-stone to a new generation of more efficient, lower-cost power sources like other biofuels, solar cells, wind and ethanol made from farm waste or other sources. Brazil, for instance, brews sugarcane-based ethanol, which is more efficient than corn-based...
...Braveheart” or “The Passion of the Christ” and he certainly doesn’t here either. The moment you see a white waterfall, you know it’s only a matter of time before it is stained with red, and a cornfield just wouldn’t be a cornfield in a Gibson movie without a field of corpses behind...
...from celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Willie Nelson, Martin Sheen, Danny Glover, Laura Dern, Ben Harper, Ralph Nader and, proving that casting directors are underpaid, the mom from Dharma & Greg. You figure if the Field of Dreams guy got Shoeless Joe to come to a baseball field in a cornfield, this is just about right for a cornfield near Compton...
...composer Harold Arlen and the wrestler Gorgeous George. He also played occasionally in rock band and briefly backed Vee in 1959, when the Buddy Holly soundalike singer was booked to fill the dates Holly couldn't make because he'd died in a plane crash in a frosty Iowa cornfield...