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...well understood. Saturated fat tends to raise LDL levels. Butter, bacon, beef, whole milk, virtually any food of animal origin is high in saturated fat; so are two vegetable oils: coconut and palm. Polyunsaturated fats, which are typically of vegetable origin, have the opposite effect; thus corn, safflower, soybean and sesame oils tend to lower the level of potentially dangerous LDL. Fish oils do the same. In the middle are the mono-unsaturated fats such as olive and peanut oils. These may lower LDL slightly, but tend to be neutral...
...freeze-up has bottom-line consequences. The idle towboats and barges eat up about $5,000 a week in (diesel fuel, insurance fees, crew salaries and supplies. Meanwhile, the barge lines must sublease other boats to carry cargo on existing contracts. What is more, corn and soybean prices have jumped 10? to 15? per bu. in some markets, but the grain companies cannot cash in. Agri Industries, a large Des Moines grain concern, has ten barges of corn and five barges of soybeans worth about $3.85 million stuck in the river. "It's going to be costly, no question...
...squabbles, notable advances have been made. Bilateral trade has spiraled from $95.9 million in 1972 to $4.3 billion in 1983. American tourists to China have grown in number from 10,000 in 1978 to 150,000 last year. Joint research projects-about 300 in 21 different fields ranging from soybean production to earthquake prediction-are also under way. All in all, it would seem, quite a few stepping stones on which to cross troubled waters...
...high cornstalk stumps. "I can personally feel the pain," he said as he looked out over Farmer Richard Weiss's acreage, "because I have looked at my own fields. They're not this bad, but they're bad." Block owns a 3,000-acre corn and soybean farm near the Mississippi River...
...backseat of a Mercedes is piled with bags of chicken feed. A jogger is startled when Canada geese suddenly lift off from a soybean field. A sculptor thumbs through Hoard's Dairyman near the life-size statue of a Holstein, while down at Rose & Chubby's Luncheonette, commuters discuss optional features available on new eight-row corn pickers...