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Purdue University student inventors Amy Khal, a junior in agricultural engineering from Iowa City, Iowa, and Brian Beales, a junior in mechanical engineering from Mendota Heights, Minn., display their "Fire Bean," a fire-starter made from soy oil and sawdust. Their invention won them $5,000 in the second annual Innovative Uses for Soybeans contest sponsored by the Purdue Department of Agronomy and the Indiana Soybean Development Council. Click on photo above to download a (248k) JPEG photo. Color prints are available or electronic scans can also be transmitted from Purdue News Service, (765) 494-2096. The story accompanying this photograph can be seen by clicking this link to the Soybean Contest (Purdue News Photo by David Umberger.)

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