And if we use their biomass directly and not just the seed - all we use are the seed of the corn - we use their biomass directly to make energy and to run the plant that makes the energy, we can have biofuels that are immensely better, that can give us 80 or 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gases compared to gasoline.

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This Mr Kim intends to return to North Korea later this month with better varieties of seed corn.

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It explains a large part of the rapid diffusion of hybrid corn seed among Iowa farmers from 1928 to 1941.

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Innovations are remarkably similar in some of their basic features as described by economist-statistician Zvi Griliches many years ago in his study of the dispersion of new hybrid corn seed varieties.

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Protecting the Technological Seed Corn: Fortunately, in the case of the F-117 and to an even greater degree with the aforementioned systems whose problems were more in the public domain, the secretary of Defense presiding at the time (and others in the executive branch) engaged directly with the Congress to muster and maintain the necessary support from Capitol Hill.

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We did it by saving our seed corn, investing and ultimately inventing our way out of farming jobs.

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It is a measure of the desperation of the U.S. nuclear power industry that it is willing to risk its seed corn on so uncertain a venture.

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