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Our planet actually looks like a big potato, at least according to European Space Agency's GOCE satellite that shows the uneven distribution of gravity on Earth. The geoid map will help us better understand our planet.
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Man cannot live on potatoes alone, at least not without coveting other foods. This is the unexpected lesson being learned by Chris Voigt, the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, finishing week four of his spuds-only diet.
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While it was announced that environmentally-friendly crisp packets, made from potato peelings, could soon be on shop shelves across the UK, a North American company cut back on its use of compostable snack bags.
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A growing number of European countries have decided to fight the European Commission's approval of the genetically modified potato called Amflora.
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Potato peelers in Prince Edward Island are going to try to set a new world record this summer. They hope to break a Guinness World Record for the most potatoes peeled by five people in 45 minutes.
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A Peruvian and a Chinese photographer have won the world photography contest “Focus on a global food” launched by FAO and the United Nations.
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It seems that the toy head is coming with something new these days. Ecstasy tablets. Customs officers discovered nearly 10.5 ounces of ecstasy tablets hidden inside a Mr. Potato Head toy sent to Australia from Ireland.
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I like doing word searches while I am, um.....uh, busy in the bathroom. I saved a couple of the completed ones I did about a month ago (word searches, that is!). One of the topics was about the history of the potato chip with related words to seek out.
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2008 is the UN Year of the Potato; Potatoes are crucial to the food security of hundreds of millions of people in the developing world, where annual consumption has risen from 9 kg/capita in 1961-63 to around 21kg today.
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Posted just for Amaranth, Heres a recipe for serving your mashed potatoes at easter, with an easter theme and associated springtime flavours you'll have your easter party guests fighting over.
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Potato Headlines
 New Brunswick potato farmer Henk Tepper arrived in Grand Falls just before 8 p.m. AT Sunday, after spending more than a year in a Lebanese jail, arrested on a warrant on allegations he sold rotten potatoes in Algeria.
 The potato industry generates more than $1 billion for the province of P.E.I., says an economic impact study released Friday.
A new initiative to sell basic products - such as potatoes - directly from the producer to the consumer, cutting out the wholesalers so as to reduce the price, is benefiting hard-up Greeks.
Greeks are struggling to cope with falling wages and rising prices, but Mark Lowen in Athens has found many are turning to the "potato revolution" for help.
Did he unleash the era of children's pester power?
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If you look closely you can see another black racer crawling through the potato plants after being spotted by my camera.
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