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- <text id=91TT0102>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: The Weird Science Prize
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 11
- THE WEIRD SCIENCE PRIZE
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> BELCHING BOVINES
- </p>
- <p> The government is paying $210,000 to find out whether
- burping cows contribute to global warming. Researchers will
- strap monitors near the cud-chewing creatures' mouths to
- measure how much methane they emit. Flatulence is considered
- a comparatively minor source.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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