Hybrid-delicious

I was just doing some research on hybrid SUVs. For a couple thousand dollars more than the gas guzzling option, the Toyota Highlander, Lexus RX400H and Ford Escape all come in hybrid form. Americans get a $2,000 tax credit for buying a hybrid vehicle. That will change to a measly $500 in 2006. Up in Canada, however, we get absolutely nothin' for going green. I don't get it. But with a Nissan X-Trail sitting in my driveway, who am I to talk?

Anyway, as I was searching, I accidentally came across a Montreal Gazette article about hybrid apples. In four or five years, the story read, you'll be able to cut open an apple, leave it out for days, and it'll never get brown. Other apples are being developed to stay in your fridge for nine months before going bad. (I guess I should throw out the year-old apples in my fridge now that I know they're no good.) The magic apples were created by cross-breeding a New York apple tree with an Ontario apple tree. Yum yum.