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...harvest of cash and corn beckons microbiology and business

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tampering with Beans and Genes | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...learn to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the past 11,000." So says Corn Geneticist Ronald Phillips of the University of Minnesota. Can it be done, especially since the so-called Green Revolution has just about run out of steam? The answer may lie in the fact that a second Green Revolution, powered by the wonders of genetic engineering, has been gathering impetus for some time and now seems within reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tampering with Beans and Genes | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

Cafeteria Manager Wanda Gillespie notes that Eastman has a special problem: "A lot of kids don't get this type of food at home. It takes a while for them to accept normal American things like apple sauce or mixed peas and corn." Gillespie tries, within Government requirements, to serve foods closer to the Latin taste, such as pizza and burritos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backing Down on Benefits | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...cheerful, unassuming invincibility of its characters. Blessed with the warmth and goodness of home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unspoiled America | 10/10/1981 | See Source »

...greatest Connecticut threat came when a pass from Corn set up a first down in Harvard territory, but the Huskies fumbled and Mark Mead recovered the ball for the Crimson. Harvard themselves fumbled early in the fourth period, but McGugan recovered the ball, and Lahti regained yardage lost on a penalty with two good passes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Gridders Demolish UConn, 47-0 | 10/6/1981 | See Source »

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