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...were just nice and convenient. Example: medicine cabinets that light up when touched. Still another: a hot-air popper for gourmet popcorn. Earlier models did not work with such popcorn because of extra moisture in the corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sear's Sizzling New Vitality | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Idaho, swarms of them can be seen from miles away, and troubled farmers speak of "watching the grasshoppers coming over the mountains." The insects are imperiling $1.1 billion worth of alfalfa, grain, beans and potatoes in southern Idaho. In South Dakota, grasshoppers, army worms and corn borers have laid waste to thousands of acres of crops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Invaders Feast on Crops | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...everyone. By noon of one busy morning, she already had dinner made: a variation on shepherd's pie with layers of potatoes, red onions and scallions, green peas and sautéed turkey, topped by a layer of Jiffy biscuit mix-accompanied, as are most Lewis meals, by corn on the cob and a salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Carl Lewis: Man in the Eye of a Media Hurricane | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...startling study was enough to drive men to drink. According to a report released last week by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, bourbon, America's beloved corn squeezings, contains female-type sex hormones that may be responsible for the "feminized" appearance-enlarged breasts and beardless faces-of some alcoholic men. The culprit, wrote Judith Gavaler, a Medical Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, may be phytoes- trogen, a female-type hormone found in corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirits: Real Men Don't Drink Bourbon? | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

That is about the only unwelcome side effect. Tofutti is a dieter's and a cardiologist's dream. Blended with high-fructose corn sweeteners, it contains 128 calories in four ounces, about the same as frozen yogurt, but fewer than the 250 or more for premium ice cream. NutraSweet, the sugar substitute, may soon be used to further reduce calories. Because Tofutti is both butterfat and cholesterol-free, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach even serves the confection to heart patients. It contains no lactose, good news for the millions of Americans who suffer an adverse reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: It's Trendy, Tasty and Tofutti | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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