Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pools and public transportation is up almost everywhere. In Michigan, state police were rationed a single tankful per week for chasing speeders, until the legislature gave them emergency funds last week to buy more gas. In rural Iowa, where energy experts once insisted that gasoline was as vital as corn, gas consumption fell 12.3% in the first quarter...
...urban shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally abundant corn crop has been savaged by severe drought; about 200,000 people are dependent on emergency Red Cross food shipments...
...their city brethren, seems obvious. Explains Burmeister: "We could say with a fair amount of confidence that it is probably related to sun exposure. But for the others, particularly prostatic cancer, we don't really know." He speculates that leukemia may be related to dairy farming or to corn raising. "It is certainly something worth pursuing," he says, "but it will take a long time to make the connection, if we ever make...
...since the Pakistan government's new policy of "strict neutrality" toward the Afghan insurgency, overland resupply across the border has become increasingly unsuccessfuland expensive, since the required bribes at border posts have risen accordingly. As a result, mujahidin in the hills have no meat, rice or corn. Above the Pich valley, they eat only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly in texture as well as appearance. "Because of Kunar's terrain I don't think we can be eliminated with guns," concludes Wahid, a 24-year-old former Kabul University chemistry student...
...that they were heavy in fat and sugar and poor in nutrition. The naturals' market has shrunk from 10% in 1974 to the current 3%. Fortified bran-based cereals, helped by studies showing the health benefits of high-fiber diets, have replaced the natural products. Quaker Oats' Corn Bran is now one of the hottest new cereals on the shelf, while Ralston's Honey Bran and Kellogg's Most have also appeared in the past year. To hit even smaller segments of an increasingly fragmented market, Kellogg is test-marketing high-in-iron Smart Start...