To test the cancer fighting qualities of the "phytochemicals" in apples, the researchers used colon cancer cells grown in the laboratory.
One word on the trick-or-treating question: As a child, adults told me that bad people "often" put razor blades in apples, or put poison into candy at Halloween.
That not only means fewer insects buzzing, but less pollination of crops, endangering the almond groves in California, apples in the Northeast and oranges in Florida.
Few desserts are more storied than the tarte Tatin, which became a universal darling after the Tatin sisters, French innkeepers, famously forgot to line a pan with crust before they put in the apples and started baking.
Chile went from being a small player in the global fruit market, exporting just apples in the 1960s, to become one of the world's largest fruit exporters in the 1990s.
He searches for the origins of the domestic apple in Kazakhstan to tell an evolutionary tale which explains how every eating apple in the world is a direct descendent of apples in the Tien Shan forest (the bitter taste of apple pips is cyanide, their shape adapted to slip through the guts of a marauding bear unharmed).
For example, EcoBot-II, developed in 2004, was fed dead flies and rotten apples in order to create power.
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In 2010, the bugs were particularly ruthless on apples in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, says Mr. Seetin.
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You may think that having to read more in a supermarket than you would in a library or find out the genesis of the apples in your basket takes the joy out of food shopping, but for slow foodies it's a journey of discovery.
They will be planting 10 trees in the grounds of their school and over the next few years they hope to be able to sell their apples in the school and use them school meals.
After his downfall winter sets in, the apples fall and the branches lose their leaves.
That would be the right prescription if Andersen and Enron were the bad apples in a good crop.
Stern went through his league's process of weeding out bad apples in painstaking detail at a press conference Tuesday.
The easiest way, obviously, is to avoid hiring bad apples in the first place and that means taking a different approach to assessing candidates for jobs.
"There is no safety net, " said Dan Gregory, 64 years old, who farms more than 2, 000 acres of cherries and apples in Suttons Bay, near an inlet on Lake Michigan.
Other suggested uses include helping us keep our produce at home fresher for longer by -- literally -- weeding out bad apples in a bag, before they affect the others.
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Peterson said auditors like Warren basically were hired to find the bad apples in the barrel and pull them out: borrowers with payments they couldn't afford, houses with inflated appraisals, people lying about their income.
The apocryphal brothers who bought a truck and bought apples in the country for five cents, which they sold in the city for four cents would not have been saved by a better credit line any more than they would have been saved by a bigger truck.
Perhaps in a market for apples, the government does not need to mandate minimum quality standards.
Instead of ordering Washington apples for delivery in a week from Washington, customers will be able to order them from Rotterdam, N.
Supermarkets, for instance, like uniformity so if they want, say, apples of a certain size and in a particular state of ripeness, a farmer could use the model to identify exactly where such apples are growing.
This can be devilishly difficult when so much corporate energy is invested in endowing every operating unit with apples-to-apples comparability.
They're getting people away from the idea that blackberries have to come in little boxes, or that apples have to be this perfectly round red thing.
Balanced by vinegar, shallots and a touch of mustard, the quince's musky sweetness lingers in the background, mellowing the apples, the bitter chicories and the pungent, salty gorgonzola.
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Catherine was particularly considerate of him, bringing in brown paper bags full of apples from her garden and Tupperware containers of mince pies to share with his housemates.
Apples are freighted nationwide in all manner of ways, and watching from a roadside tea stall is a great way to get a snapshot, literally and figuratively, of how the produce is moved in the mountains.
Every kid in the world who is not physically disabled has run a sprint at one time or another, either on the playground, the street, a dirt road, in a game, after stealing apples or to flee bullies.
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