Word: cottons
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...Even so, it's a pill that some shareholders are finding hard to swallow. - By Peter Gumbel No More Bale-Outs In the first ever challenge to a wealthy nation's domestic agricultural handouts, the WTO ruled illegal the billions of dollars in federal subsidies paid to U.S. cotton farmers. Meanwhile, the E.U. said it would soon end its six-year moratorium on the approval of biotech foods...
...gushed Denman, who along with Fan, Patrican, Abi O. Orisamolu and Elizabeth J. McVoy navigated, red folders tucked under their arms, through the crowds of students and faculty enjoying the music, cotton candy and Earth Day fair at Springfest...
Lured outside by inflatable castles, cotton candy, plastic tattoos and face paint, several thousand students put away their books yesterday afternoon to attend the 11th annual Springfest...
...instance, translucently thin and tasting like pork rinds; spaghetti not topped with Parmesan but fashioned from it; carrots turned into foam, artichokes into puree, and foie gras into ice cream. For such alchemy, Adria maintains a "laboratory workshop" in nearby Barcelona, where he experiments with everything from centrifuges to cotton-candy machines. Adria sees Spain's pioneering departure from the norms set by French cuisine as only natural. "It is objectively true that Spain discovered America and brought about a change in cuisine," he says. "During the Golden Age, we taught Europe to eat." The foodies of the world...
...Butts E.U. farm ministers agreed to phase out production-linked subsidies for the region's tobacco growers - located largely in Greece and Italy - by 2010. The deal for so-called Mediterranean crops will also slash subsidies to cotton and olive producers...