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Such souped-up plants are understandably popular with farmers, for whom even a slight increase in yield can mean a big increase in profits. Last year in the U.S., 35% of the soy crop and 42% of the cotton crop were grown with GM seeds. Says Karen Marshall, a Monsanto spokeswoman: "These really do work and have tremendous benefits to growers...
AMUSEMENT PARKS Killer coasters cast pall on summer. What's next? E. coli cotton candy...
...provided at doctors' offices and hospitals offer about as much comfort--and coverage--as paper napkins. Spotting a gap in the market, Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey had Cynthia Rowley design a "Hospital Chic" line so its patients could be not just dignified but soigne. The all-cotton ensembles reflect current fashion, with cap sleeves for women and wide-leg, drawstring pants for men. Now, if only she could do something about the food...
Young Samuel Timothy Smith didn't always seem to have the makings of a superstar, but the boy who would become Tim McGraw was country from the word go. He grew up in Start, La., a town, he says, that consisted of "a cotton gin, a couple churches and a school or two." Tim's father Horace Smith, a trucker, would take his son on runs, a load of cottonseed in the back, eight-track tapes of Johnny Paycheck and Charley Pride in the front. "By the time I was six," says McGraw, "I felt as if I knew...
...they can also engender maddening side effects, like the "lindane crazies": a drug-induced syndrome that isn't in the medical literature but is nonetheless real for its victims. "They come in with things taped to little pieces of paper," Serrano says. "It's just bits of cotton or lint. They say, 'I feel them right here,' but there's nothing. When you ask them what they've been using, they say, 'I've been using lindane for the past six months...