Taco Bell earlier this year introduced its tacos with Doritos shells and a "nacho burrito" that includes corn chips.

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And the oils and fats used in some fried potato and corn chips elevate cholesterol and can cause heart disease.

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It arrives with toasty corn chips and a trio of salsas, which can bring out the Goldilocks in a diner.

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This Super Bowl Sunday, with its football heroes whose televised exploits are bracketed by commercials for beer and corn chips, will be no exception.

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To create a powdered insulin suitable for a foil pack, it adapted the same kind of spray dryers used for coating corn chips with cheese flakes.

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Aboard the boat was a cloth-covered picnic table set with handmade clay dishes and mugs, holding corn chips and homemade guacamole, a salad prepared with freshly picked chinampa produce, such as white onion and tomatoes, and served with two types of ranchero cheese, as well as plates of Oaxaca-style tamales filled with mushroom and guajillo chilli sauce.

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But fuel from algae might make no less sense than trying to make fuel from prairie grasses or corn cobs or wood chips.

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"We'll also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks and switchgrass, " the president promised.

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We will also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn, but from wood chips and stalks or Swiss grass.

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While second generation biofuels are produced from non-edible feedstocks like wood chips or methane gas emitted from landfills, currently available biofuels are generated almost exclusively from corn.

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