BUT ALL IS QUIET AMONG RUTABAGAS Recently, Rhode Island named Mr. Potato Head its official travel ambassador and began planting six-foot statues of him across the state. But that's not the only breaking tuber story:
--British gynecologists are launching a clinical trial on the effects of progesterone extracted from Mexican wild yams on women with PMS
--U.S. scientists last month used 150-year-old Irish potato leaves to replicate the DNA of the fungus that brought on the Great Potato Famine
--Nigerian police are investigating reports that a schoolboy was turned into a yam through witchcraft
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