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Hi,
Since Celiac's are primarily concerned with rice maybe some might like
to check out something about rice and it's history as a diversion from the
usual medical stuff.

Dennis
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>4. RiceWeb: A Compendium of Facts and Figures from the World of Rice
>http://www.riceweb.org/
>Mirror site:
>http://www.cgiar.org/Riceweb/Index.htm
>International Rice Research Institute
>http://www.cgiar.org/irri/
>
>"Everything you wanted to know about one of the longest-running cereals on
>earth" is the phrase that heads off this well-developed site produced by
>the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). The source for much of
>the information here is the 1996 edition of IRRI's _Rice Almanac_. Visitors
>to the site can browse several areas, including "A Brief History of Rice,"
>information about world production and trade, the morphology and growth of
>the rice plant, and summaries of current research in the field. The IRRI
>has also made available a 3,000-item glossary of "the terminology used in
>rice production and rice research" as well as an extensive list of acronyms
>and abbreviations representing agencies, "various rice varieties, diseases
>and pests, experimental procedures and more." [AG]