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...report issued Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistical Service's Des Moines, Iowa, office said recent rains are actually helping corn and soybean crops. "Cooler temperatures associated with rains are helping livestock, though insects continue to be an issue," the report said matter-of-factly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Rains Better Than Drought? | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...bought some coal, and returned shortly before electricity and water were cut off. As the waters rose, 40-year-old Xu and her family huddled on the top floor of their house. Outside boats weaved between building tops; window frames floated in the water. For days they lived on corn stew cooked over a coal fire. "I got more and more scared," she says. "Qu county floods every year. But this is the biggest flood I have seen. It rose much higher than I expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Floods in China | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...Department of Agriculture subsidy to a single soybean-and-corn farm in Illinois from 1999 to 2005--paid to an owner who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 6, 2007 | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...here. They showcase all different kinds of produce—not only the obvious cucumbers and bananas, but also less likely models like lemons and potatoes—and diverse catchy slogans, like the words “Poppt sicher!” above a condom-covered ear of corn. (“Poppen” means to pop, but I can only assume it also connotes ejaculation. “Sicher” means safely or surely.) Every Berliner who takes public transport—which is basically every Berliner, from schoolchildren to the elderly—sees these...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky | Title: Safely Makes Fun! | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...summit will host prominent scientists, business executives and government officials from around the world and focus on topics like emissions, forest conservation and alternative fuels. (Crist is also mandating that state-owned vehicles use biofuels like corn ethanol when possible.) But Crist, who made a point of inviting Kennedy, also hopes it will promote what he says is a sorely needed bipartisan approach on global warming, as well as provide a nudge to recalcitrant conservatives who still consider the global warming science murky or are simply opposed to the kind of measures states like California and now Florida are promulgating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sunshine State vs. Global Warming | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

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