Word: corns
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...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...
Fortunately, antidotes to this problem abound. Varying amounts of linoleic and linolenic acid are found in different kinds of cooking and salad oils -- among them corn, soybean, safflower and walnut oils. They are also present in seeds, nuts and green vegetables like broccoli. But don't look for polyunsaturated oils in processed grains, advises Siguel. Food manufacturers generally remove these spoilage-prone compounds from pasta, bread and breakfast cereal in order to lengthen the shelf life of their products. Thus, Siguel ventures, a slice of pizza made with soybean oil may be healthier than portions of some low-fat foods...
While sanctions are hurting the poor, who survive on beans and rice, shops in Port-au-Prince were well stocked. Cement supplies began to run out and so did Kellogg's Corn Flakes, but well-to-do supporters of the junta boasted they could outlast Clinton. Local supermarket owners said they had enough stock in warehouses for at least three months. "The prices are higher," says a Haitian executive, "but I can still get everything I need." (Last week, however, gasoline prices shot up abruptly...
...refugees beat to death two men who demanded more food in the Kibumba camp, the largest of three border camps around Goma, Zaire. Relief workers say brawls over food and supplies are growing more common, and they fear the unrest could spread out of control unless supplies of flour, corn and other grains increase. Visible about 3,000 ft. above them, Rwanda's Nyiragongo volcano erupted, spewing ash and dust but no lava on the preoccupied refugees. U.N. officials, meanwhile, launched a new campaign to draw them back home but reported no results...
...cartoons inhabit a dog-eat-cat, male- chase-female, everyone-humiliate-everyone-else world -- a place at constant war over food crises and turf disputes. It is also a world wholly aware of itself as an artistic fabrication. A joke will apologize for itself by sprouting an ear of corn (Get it? Corny!). A character will pluck a vagrant "hair" from the film-projector lamp, or abruptly go monochrome because he passed a reading technicolor ends here. "Ain't we in the wrong picture?" asks Red Riding Hood of the wolf in Swing Shift Cinderella. By keying the insane pace...