BlackRock's decision to invest in Alpha had nothing to do with Rice Energy's relationship with the company, the spokeswoman says.
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The BlackRock spokeswoman says the fund's investment in Alpha had nothing to do with Mr. Rice's family ties.
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The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) said in a blog post that "even where the soil is contaminated with a lead spill, a number of studies have shown that rice plants do not take up a significant amount of lead and move it to the grains".
What I'd like to do is do all questions for Ambassador Rice now, and we can get to other issues after that.
The warehouse plans to store more corn, wheat and other commodities this year, he said, but those crops do not produce the profit margins rice does.
Oh, what will the middle class teen in Brazil do without someone to cook their rice and beans, press their clothes and make their beds every day?
Investors who want to bet on solar power or electric cars do not want to be saddled with rice cookers or restaurants.
Condoleezza Rice has been promising to do all she can to help the two sides reach an agreement by the time she leaves office.
The White House had resisted letting Rice testify, arguing that to do so would be a violation of executive privilege.
Vito Bagnardi is hoping boxes of Rice-A-Roni can do for his favorite show what an airplane, letters and some 20 tons of peanuts have done for others before it.
Even before Annapolis, Condi Rice has found it inexpedient to do more than mouth platitudes of the kind that once governed George Bush's policies vis a vis the Jewish State and its enemies.
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When people do not have enough calories, staples such as rice and wheat are vital: they provide the most calories per dollar.
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Part of its "Smarter Planet" initiative, one of the vignettes describes how some do-gooders used IBM software to map the rice genome, identifying what was killing crops and helping to end hunger.
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Ms. RICE: We will see what is necessary to do in the Security Council.
"Everything that humans can do a machine can do, " says Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston.
The following infographic visualizes how arsenic gets in rice and outlines some suggestions for what you can do to limit your intake.
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Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham both said today that they want to have Watergate-style hearings on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, and said that if you nominate Susan Rice to be Secretary of State, they will do everything in their power to block her nomination.
Rice said the president promised after September 11 that he would do everything possible to avoid another attack on U.S. soil.
Southern peanut and rice farmers are cross that Midwestern wheat and corn growers will do better than they will from the switch from direct payments to revenue guarantees.
Now George Bush got more black votes--a higher percentage this time, this last election, than he did when he first ran, but it's--still you can say about 90 percent of the black people do not support him, despite appointments such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice and a few others.
If I were to plan a trip again, I would prefer to do more 'hands-on' tours, like the lantern making and rice pancake making in Hoi An.
Although Clarke and other Clinton holdovers strongly warned the new Bush administration about al Qaeda, Rice says that they never presented her with a plan for what to do about it.
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After all, most Big East coaches do not land there immediately after stops in the NEC, but Rutgers looked at Rice and saw the man who could turn the perennially underachieving program around.
An adviser to six former secretaries of state on the Middle East, Miller says if Rice really wants to make her mark, she'll have to do more heavy lifting and some serious prep work for this conference.
"The United States will always do anything and everything that it can to help innocent people who are suffering, " Rice said said at a joint news conference with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"He was also very clear that we would do nothing -- nothing -- that was against the law or against our obligations internationally, " Rice said during an appearance at a Washington school.
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