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...York City area proved this is not quite the case. Among the most disappointing -- because they lacked flavor or because of unpleasantly sharp and metallic aftertastes -- were Manhattan Brewing Co.'s bottled Gold lager and its draught Oktoberfest and Amber beers. In bottles, Anchor's Porter, Liberty Ale and Wheat Beer, Boulder's Porter and Extra Pale Ale lacked authority, as did Minnesota's August Schell's Pilsner and Cold Spring Export "water-made." The best by far was the sophisticated, convincingly German-style Samuel Adams lager, followed by the clear, refreshing Dock Street Amber from Philadelphia and the tangy...
...goes according to plan, a team of Clemson researchers at the school's agricultural research station near Blackville, S.C., will sprinkle a murky white liquid teeming with billions of Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria on winter wheat seeds during planting. It should be easy enough to tell whether the invisible microorganisms survive and spread: the Pseudomonas bacteria have been altered by genetic engineers to turn a brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered...
...faded, President Hoover promised a tax cut, recommended public works, called a series of conferences with business leaders, and declared that "we have re-established confidence." But in the course of 1930, the Times industrials sank to 199, and the entire economy kept contracting; some 1,000 banks failed, wheat slumped from $1.35 per bu. to 76 cents, and panhandlers proliferated. Hard times were here to stay...
...very mellow pig," says Nora, who makes wild-chokecherry wine and bakes all her breads and biscuits with homegrown wheat and rye. "When she had her first litter, we took a bottle of wine and some glasses into the pig house to help her through...
Experts expect some crops to fall 40% to 50% from last year's levels. The yield in the agriculturally important states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh will be about 70% below normal. A famine is considered unlikely since India has large stockpiles of wheat and rice. But food shortages are a real possibility, and India may be forced to import grain for the first time in years. That could create new political problems for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, whose ruling party has taken credit for India's recent self-sufficiency in food grains...