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Reuters | November 16, 1999 | Michael Christie MEXICO CITY - According to this story, Mesoamerican Indian peasants gave corn to the world, developing the plant over thousands of years by mixing various strains of wild maize.

Inter Press Service | November 12, 1999 | By Ahn Mi-Young SEOUL - Son Yoon-Hee no longer reaches for the bean paste cakes at the supermarket, although they are cheap and make a delicious soup to share with her husband and seven-year-old son.

Washington Post | By Ceci Connolly, Washington Post Staff Writer | November 17, 1999

Reuters | November 16, 1999 | By Michael Byrnes SYDNEY - Asia, the biggest eatery in the world, is, according to this story, beginning to be swept by the global storm over genetically modified (GM) food as apathy bows to rising consumer concern and regulators chew on billion dollar decisions.

Reuters | November 17, 1999 | By Patricia Reaney LONDON - A British scientist said Wednesday that genetic modification technology is not a big, bad monster sponsored by profit-hungry multinationals, but a scientific means to efficiently feed a hungry world.

Reuters | November 16, 1999 SYDNEY - Rules are on the way in Asia to regulate genetic foods, with Australia and Japan taking the initiative.

Reuters | November 18, 1999 | By Greg Frost PARIS - European and Japanese consumers have, according to this story, balked at the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops, but Japan is ahead of Europe in building a two-tiered market that prices GM-free food at a premium to gene-altered varieties.

USDA ARS News Service | November 15, 1999 New potato genes built by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service might boost the health of subsistence farm families in villages throughout the Andes mountains. The Andean region of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador is the ancestral home of the potato, America's most popular vegetable.