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...Duke's gives you eight burgers to choose from, including the classic cheddar and smoked bacon ($20). It also offers a selection of salad and "fry" sides, like parmesan-and-corn fritters. With the exception of a mediocre spiked milkshake, the fare is excellent. If Dang ever decided to try his hand at cooking something besides burgers, the results promise to be just as enticing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flip Side | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...liver. It's this organ, after all, that orchestrates the breakdown and distribution of fats and sugars from the diet. When too much of either comes in, the liver starts to keep some of the excess for itself, converting sugars from soft drinks and the ubiquitous high-fructose corn syrup into fat that remains within its tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overweight Children: Living Large | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...period. That explains the fierce rain that has battered central Midwestern states like Missouri, Illinois and Iowa. Flooding in Iowa's southeastern corner has been particularly pronounced this year, as it was last summer, mainly because bands of thunderstorms have stubbornly hovered above already-saturated corn and soybean fields. This year, however, the storms have extended farther north, into Wisconsin and Minnesota, and farther south, into Oklahoma and Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Midwest's Crazy Weather | 6/11/2008 | See Source »

...Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his family earn $1,200 a year growing corn, rice and strawberries. So far they haven't succeeded. "That river hasn't changed in my lifetime," says Yu, 50, as he rolls a cigarette and squishes his bare feet in a soft embankment. "But I don?t know what will happen next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damming China's River Wild | 6/10/2008 | See Source »

...girl in short shorts and Doc Martens walked up to us on Church Street and drawled a question slow as corn syrup...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rocky End | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

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