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...they were when they first made love (51% were under 18); whether they look behind the shower curtain or door when using someone else's bathroom (7% do); whether, if they found a diamond ring, they would attempt to locate the owner (79% would); and whether they eat corn on the cob side to side or in circles (for those who can't wait to find out, fully 80% eat it in circles...
When Iowa farmer Janice Sorenson turned up a huge, windmill-shaped hunk of titanium while harvesting corn last week, she knew exactly what she had found. General Electric had distributed photos of the disk in its search for the cause of the crash of a United Airlines DC-10 last July in Sioux City. The crash, which killed 112 passengers, has been blamed on the explosion of the jet's GE-made aft engine, which severed the aircraft's hydraulic control lines...
...ethanol blend that is 78% gasoline and 22% alcohol distilled from sugarcane. According to Illinois- based Archer Daniels Midland, ethanol blends account for 8% of all U.S. motor fuel. The mixture is readily available in parts of the Midwest at stations that display the gasohol symbol, an ear of corn...
...sentence on Bi's crumbling blackboard reads, "He has corn and other things -----------in his fields...
Despite its inefficiency, the Ukraina kolkhoz is one of the Soviet Union's most profitable collective farms. It employs more than 7,000 people and earns a profit -- about $4.7 million in 1988 -- on sales of cattle, corn, sugar beets, wheat and other products. Yet mismanagement limits its progress. Dull cites as one example a "specialist system," requiring that people be trained to do only one specific task. Party officials, often without agricultural expertise, constantly monitor to make sure things are done as the party dictates. "Soviet farmers are accustomed to having Big Brother watching over their shoulder," says Dull...