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FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas - In the future, fat shaved off chicken breasts and other parts may power
automobiles that emit less pollution.

Chemical engineering researchers associated with the Mack Blackwell Transportation Center at the
University of Arkansas have developed an optimized method of converting chicken fat into biodiesel
fuel. The novel project could lead to using chicken fat — a plentiful, accessible and low-cost
feed stock — as an inexpensive supplement to petroleum-based diesel fuel.

“We’re trying to expand the petroleum base,” said Brian Mattingly, a graduate student in the UA
Department of Chemical Engineering. “Five to 20 percent blending of biodiesel into petroleum-based
diesel significantly reduces our dependence on foreign oil, and we’re using a renewable resource.
These are just a few of biodiesel’s benefits.”

Supported by the national transportation center, the research will lead to Mattingly’s master’s
thesis in chemical engineering. He is pursuing the project under the direction of R.E. Babcock and
Ed Clausen, UA professors of chemical engineering, and Michael Popp, associate professor of
agricultural economics.

The study provides data that allows researchers and biodiesel producers to evaluate material and
processing costs and product yields for two conversion methods and two types of fat. Mattingly
said the research will help producers choose the most economical conversion method based on
specific composition of different grades of chicken fat…

http://mt.engr.uark.edu/news/archives/2005/11/ua_researchers_2.htm

When a Mother Gets Killed Does She Make a Sound?
The pro-Israel bias of the mainstream media is just nauseating.

…[S]ome disturbing patterns are beginning to emerge. They implicate some of our major news media, and, perhaps most of all, the Associated Press, the oldest and largest wire service in the world. Most American editors and journalists have no idea what is occurring under their watch. To date, there is little indication that they care.

Before dawn on January 15th, an Israeli special forces unit killed a Palestinian mother and her 24-year-old son in their home. The mother had three bullets in her; the son 15. The Israeli soldiers also shot and wounded the woman’s husband and four other family members: young women were shot in the pelvis and chest, young men in the foot, chest, torso, liver. The firing lasted over an hour. Then the Israeli squad shot at an arriving ambulance and prevented it for 45 minutes from tending to the dying, bleeding family.

It was all the result of a “misunderstanding,” as the Israeli press put it.

Click here for link.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001319.html?nav=most_emailed

Here’s an article whose obsequiousness is just nausiating…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001460.html

…and here’s the counter-point (Please note — it’s not the NY Times!).
http://dollarsandsense.org/1105greider.html