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Agriculture News from HPJ - Your Ag News Source 
OMAHA (DTN) — Samy Sadaka, an associate scientist for Iowa State’s Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies along with other Iowa State researchers are working to take wastes from Iowa farms — manure and corn stalks — and turn them into a bio-oil that could be used for boiler fuel and perhaps transportation fuel.

Researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil 
Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same… It wasn’t that bad.

Health: Mexico Second Only to U.S. In Losing Battle of the Bulge 
By Adrin Reyes MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8, 2006 (IPS/GIN) — Mexico has the highest proportion of people considered overweight or obese — 20 percent of children and 70 percent of adults — in the world, surpassed only by the United States.