He also had a square wire mesh cage with a handle and hinged lid that he'd fill with kernels and hold over burning logs in the fireplace, but it didn't work too well. Just as well, because it seems that those compressed adobe brick packets of corn kernels and butter flavoring will kill you, or at least ruin your lungs. The alerts are getting so numerous, there's a real danger that, like the boy who cried wolf one to many times, when a real danger comes along, we'll be numbed and won't pay...

Officials at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and Central Vermont Public Service, which is helping subsidize the Boucher methane digester through its Cow Power program, said the Highgate farm appeared to be the first in the nation to employ the technology. The Boucher Family Farm expects to start construction in the spring on a methane digester that will be partly powered with crops such as hay and corn, family members said last week. Officials at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and...

The blaze is in a section of east London several miles from the center of the city, in an area where extensive redevelopment is under way in advance of the 2012 London Olympics. Since he declared emergency rule, thousands of his critics have been arrested, rallies have been banned and independent TV networks have been blacked out. As many as ten vessels sank or ran aground during the storm, including an oil tanker that broke in half, spilling more than a-half million gallons of oil into...

Two outbreaks on British farms this summer, both linked to a government lab and a private vaccine manufacturer, have done little to bolster their confidence. Texas and five other states are competing to win a mammoth biodefense facility a new $500 million federal research center that would house foot-and-mouth and other highly infectious animal diseases. Foot-and-mouth often referred to as "hoof-and-mouth" disease doesn't affect humans, just cloven-hoofed animals like cows, pigs, sheep and...

EEPC chairman Rakesh Shah said business transactions through the expositions are expected to increase further with the council receiving additional 320 business enquiries for products of some more Indian companies which did not participate in the exhibition but had sent their catalogues and product profiles for display at EEPCs theme pavilion in the exhibition. Engineering exporters look to S Africa to beef up revenues- Engineering-Ind'l Goods / Svs-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times...