Word: corns
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...like David Letterman, David Rockefeller and the owners of the Utah Jazz. It contributes to our obesity and illegal-immigration epidemics and to our water and energy shortages. It helps degrade rivers, deplete aquifers, eliminate grasslands, concentrate food-processing conglomerates and inundate our fast-food nation with high-fructose corn syrup. Our farm policy is supposed to save small farmers and small towns. Instead it fuels the expansion of industrial megafarms and the depopulation of rural America. It hurts Third World farmers, violates international trade deals and paralyzes our efforts to open foreign markets to the nonagricultural goods and services...
...droughts and other disasters. But the farm crisis is as over as Barbara Mandrell. Farm incomes are at an all-time high. The median farmer enjoys five times the net worth of the median nonfarmer household. Crop prices have soared--thanks largely to the Federal Government's promotion of corn ethanol over more efficient renewable energies--and yet subsidies have as well...
...tough. "What a joke," grumbles Congressman Ron Kind, a Wisconsin Democrat who led a failed bipartisan reform effort in the House. "You're eligible as long as you're breathing." Actually, that's not quite true. Since the vast majority of the cash goes to five row crops--corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton and rice--more than 60% of our farmers receive no subsidies. And a recent Government Accountability Office report identified $1.1 billion of subsidies whose recipients were no longer breathing...
...Harvard passing game is akin to the orange sliver of a candy corn: it’s eye-catching and deep. Senior signal-caller Chris Pizzotti is coming off a career-best performance last week against Princeton that boosted his career record as a starter to 7-1 and upped his Ivy-best passer rating. The talented cadre of receivers, led by record-book-entrenched senior Corey Mazza, only gets more dangerous as the Crimson begins to open up the air game by involving the tight end and running backs...
Finally, the Harvard run game has been like the white tip of the candy corn--sometimes it’s not even there. The Crimson averages a meager 2.9 yards per carry, but sophomore Cheng Ho has now ripped off a pair of 100-yard games and has demonstrated, along with freshman Gino Gordon, the occasional capacity to eat chunks of late-game clock...