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Rice-a-Roni Now Available in Single Serve Rice Cups

2013-02-04 09:00:58| Food Processing

The Quaker Oats' brand San Francisco treat can now be enjoyed quickly and conveniently thanks to the new microwavable cups.

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Extreme weather forces Sri Lankans to rethink rice farming

2013-01-18 08:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AlertNet: The year's end is usually a good time for wholesale rice suppliers in Sri Lanka. Customers are busy stocking up, particularly in wealthier urban areas like the capital, Colombo. But for two years running now, some suppliers have struggled to keep enough rice on hand as the year draws to a close. Changing weather patterns -- including droughts and flooding, and at times both in one year -- mean supplies are increasingly uncertain. "The weather has been so fickle that paddy harvests keep going...

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Rice creates first long, strong, flexible, and conductive carbon nanotube thread

2013-01-11 13:19:25| Extremetech

Chemical and nanoengineers at Rice University have become the first team to create long (hundreds of meters), macroscopic, mass-producible carbon nanotube thread. This thread is about the thickness of a human hair, but has the conductivity of metal and the strength of carbon fiber. If you were looking for a material to fuel smart clothing and other digital textiles, this is it.

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LCRA moves to restrict water to rice farmers in Texas Rice Belt

2013-01-10 13:06:39| Waste Management - Topix.net

The LCRA Board voted unanimously Tuesday to make the formal request to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for emergency powers to limit water releases for rice irrigation.

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