To ease the pressure to produce corn, the administration is promoting such biofuels as cellulosic ethanol, which can be made from wood chips, switchgrass and corn-plant parts such as stalks and leaves. Johanns said that figure does not take into account the potential for new varieties that could vastly boost farmers' yields. After the planting report was released, showing a big corn increase, Johanns decided not to ease penalties for farmers who decide to pull acres out of the Conservation...

Dangerous childhood diseases such as mumps, measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, chicken pox, and diphtheria were quite frequent, and epidemics of colds and flu ran rampant through the schools every winter. For those who worked outside in the winter such as icemen, loggers or railroaders, the danger of frostbite or freezing to death required constant prevention. The forests were full of danger from falling 200-foot-tall trees, to moving five-foot diameter logs that could crush a man in...

Mayor Ouano is among 19 local public officials ordered preventively suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman while it looks deeper into the allegedly overpriced purchase of lamps and streetlights for the Asean summit last January. Seno was informed yesterday that the public market was in disarray, following Taylo s resignation. Seno spent his first full day as local chief executive hopping from one meeting to another yesterday. He said that he has yet to talk with Trinidad so he will know...

She's created living units for domestic interiors and breeding units intended to yield a more original form of poultry. The nationally touring show, organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, is now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, inside its sprawling Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo. The nationally touring show, organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the New Museum of...

Sugar, salt, cooking fat and other essential items have become a luxury for the villagers who have to contend with hunting and gathering or face painful death due to starvation. Nelly Koraeny, a mother of seven, went into labour on Friday last week and efforts to take her to the nearest health facility 30km away on a donkey was slow and painful. The Ogiek community, were hunters and gatherers who lived in the forest but the Government moved them out of the forest and settled them in...