Word: wheated
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About three years ago, I started sprinkling a mixture of oat bran, wheat bran and wheat germ on my oatmeal every morning. Like many Americans, I'd heard about the studies linking a diet high in fiber--found in cereal grains, fruits and vegetables--to the prevention of heart disease and colon cancer. I figured I couldn't go wrong...
...cattle and sheep, to the center of the Champs Elysees. The police rushed to surround this sudden imposition of the countryside on the city, which disrupted business and traffic, and they braced themselves for fistfights between the citizens and the farmers. When the Parisians caught sight of the wheat and the animals, however, instead of reacting angrily, they ran toward them and began to stroll in the fields--lawyers, lovers, farmers, cops--dreamily together. For a few hours on that day, before they remembered who and where they were, all were happily back in the country...
...only case worth making. If we do not respect nature, we do not respect ourselves. We tend to forget that except at those moments when the story of who we are and where we come from rises into our life like a field of wheat and tells itself again...
...pollution combined. Why? For practical reasons, if nothing else. Humanity's food supply comes from a dangerously narrow sliver of biodiversity. Throughout history, people have cultivated or gathered 7,000 plant species for food. Today only 20 species provide 90% of the world's food and three--maize, wheat and rice--supply more than half. Tens of thousands of species of the world's still surviving flora can be bred or provide genes to increase production in deserts, saline flats and other marginal habitats...
...Everything Is Different. The NASDAQ's woes don't affect us directly--we don't have a steady supply of paper clips yet, let alone public stock--but our industry's free ride is clearly over. The men are about to be separated from the boys, the wheat from the chaff, the Yahoos from the yahoos. And--oh, my, Greenspan--we can't go public at the drop of a business plan anymore. "It's going to be much harder under these conditions," Karl warns. "The model has to be that much more ironclad...