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CIGB scientists also tried to bolster sagging industrial productivity. Molecular biologist Manuel Raices helped develop a recombinant enzyme that dissolves dextran, a sticky substance that gums up the sugar-refining process. In tests conducted by local sugar mills, the enzyme reduced oil consumption up to 45%. Now Raices is working with Swedish researchers on an enzyme that digests lignin, a gluelike material that bedevils paper manufacturers...
...Armey is too skillful a legislator to stand by his all-or-nothing creed to the point of coming up empty-handed. Despite his vociferous opposition to agricultural subsidies, Armey agreed to the recently passed farm bill, even though it maintained federal payments to big sugar companies. "I had to take what I could get," he says. And he has even come to appreciate Dole, Washington's master deal cutter. "One reason is because my daddy raised me around workhorses and not show horses," Armey said at one of his recent district meetings. "I have come to like Bob Dole...
Your report on the farm bill that left in place price supports for the sugar industry needs clarification [NATION, April 8]. The assertion that domestic sugar policy takes a "$1.4 billion yearly bite out of U.S. consumers' pockets" is a false conclusion based on a General Accounting Office report that was soundly criticized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It incorrectly assumes that every pound of the nation's sugar needs could be met with purchases on the thinly traded and highly volatile world market. In reality, the market is made up of highly subsidized sugar that has been dumped...
...report goes on to assume incorrectly that gigantic purchases could be made by the U.S., one of the world's largest consumers of sweeteners, without the price of sugar in the volatile market going up even a penny. Recent history has twice shown us that the prices skyrocket when there is even an expectation of large U.S. purchases. LUTHER MARKWART, Chairman American Sugar Alliance Washington
...voices as a child. He worked as an amateur bullfighter but, after being gored repeatedly, took up circus juggling. Later his ventriloquist act achieved worldwide fame. In his mid-80s he appeared on the Muppet Show and Late Night With David Letterman; he also toured briefly in the musical Sugar Babies...