Word: fiber
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...Havana. Donohue paid Castro a visit last July, the first ever by a U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief. Other high-profile delegations--including one led by Illinois' Republican Governor George Ryan in October--descended on Havana soon after, scoping the possibilities of selling everything from long-grain rice to fiber-optic cable. "[The Cubans] need everything in the world--technology, farms, hospitals," says Ryan. "Illinois would be in a prime position to help them." In a key step toward that goal, Missouri's Republican Senator John Ashcroft, prodded by U.S. farmers desperate for new global markets, introduced a bill this...
...REACTION All kinds of fiber can help prevent colon cancer, but now a preliminary report on pigs suggests that one type--wheat bran--may do an especially good job. Researchers fattened up some 20 hogs on a typical American diet--feed containing the same nutrients found in burgers, fries and other fatty Happy Meal fare. The pigs were also given fiber from potatoes and corn, but some got an extra sprinkle of wheat. These were the lucky pigs. In the lower part of their bowel (where most tumors occur), the pigs had more butyrate, a substance that prevents early cellular...
...ISSUE] Internet service providers such as America Online want the government to force cable companies to give them access to new high-speed fiber-optic lines...
...convert them into harmless by-products. Soon we may be using genetic engineering to create what Reid Lifset, editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, calls "designer waste streams." Consider all that stalk, or stover, that every corn plant grows along with its kernels. Scientists at Monsanto and Heartland Fiber are working toward engineering corn plants with the kind of fiber content that paper companies would find attractive. So long as the genetic tinkering poses no ecological threat, that approach could tap into a huge stream of agricultural waste, turning some of it into an industrial ingredient...
Does Chicago have the fortitude to keep its cars in the garage? I think so. The last time I was there, literally hundreds of nearly life-size fiber-glass cows, each decorated by a different artist, were displayed on the sidewalks of Michigan Boulevard. Given the traditional cattle sensitivity of Midwestern boosters afraid of having their cities dismissed as cow towns, I told my hosts that a city in Illinois that festoons its most elegant shopping area with bovine creatures is not lacking in the self-confidence department...