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...take the ethanol away, does the cell start growing again? Is it permanent?” he muses. “Then we have to find out what the mechanism is, what the alcohol’s doing in the cells to keep them from dividing...
...father, Charles Edward Adams, was a noted New York burgher. He was chairman of the U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co., which produced acetone and ethanol from the fermentation of molasses, and which, possibly before Charles joined the firm, was tainted by an incident called the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. In January of that year, according to one vivid report, a ?a storage tank holding 2.5 million gallons of molasses exploded, creating a 15-foot tidal wave of sweetness that rushed at 35 mph through downtown Boston, leaving everything brown and sticky like a Mexican restaurant men?s room.... The Great...
...counting on exhausted opponents to give up--may come back to haunt him. For one thing, cooperation from angry Democrats may be even harder to secure now on complex measures like the $31 billion energy bill, which was snarled in the Senate last week because of disputes over ethanol subsidies and liability protection for makers of gasoline additives. "The environment in the Senate is as poisonous as I've ever seen," says a worried Republican Senator...
...counting on exhausted opponents to give up-may come back to haunt him. For one thing, cooperation from angry Democrats may be even harder to secure now on complex measures like the $31 billion energy bill, which was snarled in the Senate last week because of disputes over ethanol subsidies and liability protection for makers of gasoline additives. "The environment in the Senate is as poisonous as I've ever seen," says a worried Republican Senator...
...often the House races, where candidates generally are not well known or well funded, that get tousled by the big national issues of the day. Senate races tend to be more separate, individual affairs, and until recently, the South Dakota race was mainly about meat-packing and ethanol subsidies. But for different reasons, candidates from both parties this year are trying to paint the bigger picture: Republicans in hope of surfing on Bush's continued popularity, and Democrats because they now face the possibility of losing their one-vote hold on the Senate. A unified Republican government, they warn, will...