The Maya thought of human beings as in some way made of maize: they distorted babies' soft skulls to make them look like a head of corn.
The tape recordings captured both Michael Andreas and Terrance S. Wilson, the head of the corn processing division at the time, actively participating in the price-fixing meetings.
Syngenta has recently reorganized its scientific teams to keep up with the advances in genomics and other disciplines, said Ray Riley, head of global corn and soybean product development for Syngenta.
Thirty miles from Genesis-ICESA, down a bucolic road that cuts through farmland and head-high stalks of corn, the Belgian auto-parts maker Bosal has put multiple robot-assisted cells to work.
The thumb seizes and presses the head of each blade of corn Fig. 13.
Sometimes he just makes a tiny head, with a perfect weave of corn rows across its gleaming scalp.
Our ground, rooting us to every stalk of corn, every head of wheat sown by sweat and hands, hands gleaning coal or planting windmills in deserts and hilltops that keep us warm, hands digging trenches, routing pipes and cables, hands as worn as my father's cutting sugarcane so my brother and I could have books and shoes.
It boasted an immensely sophisticated mechanism that enabled the little fellow to lower its head to pick up grains of corn and, in due course, to expel its digested meal.
Sonya, reeling from a loss and a sinus head cold, would bow out of corn the next day.
Country Life's gardening expert, Mark Griffiths, makes a great deal of the fact that the figure is holding a snake's head fritillary and a cob of corn.
