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Last year in the United States, four billion gallons of ethanol were produced from 1.43 billion bushels of corn (including kernels, stalks, leaves, cobs, husks). In comparison, the United States consumed about 140 billion gallons of gasoline. Due to farm subsidies, we have too much corn, so the government would love it if we could turn all that extra corn into gasoline, but when it comes to producing ethanol, there are much better plants out there.
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Cancer is becoming less of mystery than it once was. For instance, researchers now know that there is a genetic predisposition for certain types of breast cancer. Now they’ve discovered that how many brothers and sisters you have, especially younger ones, could predict your chances of developing a brain tumor, because brain tumors may be “catching.”

A new study analyzed over 13,000 Swedish brain tumor cases, and found people with four or more siblings were twice as likely to develop a brain tumor as people with no siblings. Researcher Andrea Altieri says, “Since the size of a family and the number of younger siblings correlate with the incidence of brain tumors, this suggests infectious agents may be causing the disease.”

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In her new diary, Anne Strieber says: “I’ve written diaries about my impressions upon seeing Fahrenheit 911 and about (not) seeing The DaVinci Code. I recently saw Mel Gibon’s film Apocalypto, and I wanted to share my thoughts about that movie as well. I saw something so obvious in it, that I couldn’t believe that no critic mentioned it?something that DOESN’T have to do with the ancient Mayans!”

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We’ve written before about why putting up a fence on the US/Mexican border to keep illegal aliens out won’t work. However, we’re doing it anyway, despite the fact that, a year ago, our own government hired illegals to clean up the mess left by Katrina. Now it turns out that illegals are being used by the company that has been hired to put up the fence to keep them out!

The International Herald Tribune reports that a California fence-building company “pleaded guilty to knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.” The company has been fined $5 million and the two executives involved could go to prison.

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