(Image credit: Matt Bowman/Getty Images)

With the death of pink slime, meat producers are finding alternative ways to cut costs.

A meat specialist at Oklahoma State University has found an undervalued cut of meat that tastes just like a New York strip steak.

Called the Vegas strip steak, this new cut of meat was unveiled at the Protein Innovation Summit in Chicago last month.

Dr. Tony Mata of Mata & Associates approached Jacob Nelson, a meat specialist at Oklahoma State University's Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center about the new cut.

"Initially, the cut was labeled as undervalued," Mata told the Drovers Cattle Network. "Whenever we can take a muscle and turn it into a steak rather than grinding it or selling it as a roast, we are adding value to the carcass."

Mata is a self-proclaimed meat geek who consults for companies in the US and South America.

"This muscle produces a steak that is on par with or better than

                                                                                                           Ne(Image Credit: Seeds Trust)

You'd be surprised to learn that these ears of corn weren't Photoshopped, made of glass or painted as many who have seen the photos have guessed.

This kid-friendly corn is real and each of the kernels is made from a different colored variety of corn.

The photos of the glass gem varietal were posted on the Seeds Trust company Facebook page in October and went viral this week.  The Colorado company's website immediately went down because of the onslaught of people looking to buy the seeds.

Seeds Trust described on its website how it discovered the heirloom varietal:

"Seedsman Greg Schoen got the seed from Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee man, now in his 8's, in Oklahoma.  He was Greg's 'corn-teacher.'   Greg was in the process of moving

(ABC News)The California high school teacher and student who left their families to date one another have appeared side-by-side in court for a hearing on sex abuse charges filed against the teacher.

James Hooker, 41, and his girlfriend Jordan Powers, 18, were photographed holding hands as they entered and left the Modesto, Calif., courtroom Tuesday where a hearing was held for Hooker on charges that he sexually assaulted another student 14 years ago.

The couple had reportedly separated after Hooker was arrested April 6 after police discovered he had an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student in 1998.

"He called me from jail and yes, I told him that we're done," Powers told ABC News in an exclusive interview the day after his arrest.  "I lost everything for this guy. I lost my senior year. I gave up all my friends at high school because they didn't agree with me."

Just a few weeks later, however, on April 17 Powers told a Sacramento TV reporter who knocked on the

The 38-year-old model mogul was just beginning her modeling days when her body changed from a size four to a size six, prompting hate mail and charges made by designers that she was fat and not hire-able.

"My mom said, 'You know what, we're going to do about this?  We're going to go get pizza,'" Banks said today on " Good Morning America."  "And over pizza in a Milan pizzeria we crafted a strategy for how to take my curves and make them work for me as opposed to me either starving myself or bowing out of the modeling industry."

PHOTOS: Tyra Banks Through the Years

Banks, of course, went on to become one of the world's top supermodels, earning millions of dollars, posing in countless magazines and turning her modeling

It's not  the one you might expect.

Expedia's  summer travel survey posed the  question on nude sunbathing to 8,600 people around the world and found that only 2 percent of Americans were likely to shed their clothing on the beach - no big surprise there. The Brits also came in at 2 percent, as did New Zealanders and Argentineans.  Only the Japanese were less likely than Americans to sunbathe nude.

Germans, on the other hand, were  far more likely to take it all off.  At 15 percent, they're the most likely of all the 21 nations surveyed to bare it all.

The French,  although still in the top quarter,  were far more modest than one might guess, given the tradition of topless sunbathing on the Riveria. But only 5 percent said they took it all off on the beach.

Here are the tallies:

Germany: 15 %

India: 8%

Spain: 8%

France: 5%

Italy: 5%

Sweden: 6%

Denmark: 6%

Australia: 5%

Canada: 5%

Singapore: 5%

Mexico: 6%

Netherlands: 6%

Brazil: 5%

Ireland: 4%

South Korea: 4%

The stunts just never stop with Sacha Baron Cohen. At the Cannes Film Festival today, he paled around on a yacht with Elisabetta Canalis, the Italian model famous for once dating George Clooney.

Dressed as the star of his new movie, "The Dictator," Cohen oiled up Canalis' legs, showed her what was inside his speedo, and eventually threw her overboard in a body bag. Photos of Canalis lounging at a Cannes hotel after the play date confirm she was not actually killed and disposed of unceremoniously.

Cohen also arrived at a Cannes press conference for "The Dictator" on a camel. All of this surely has nothing to do with the fact that "The Dictator," which comes out today, is getting lukewarm reviews compared to the raves showered on "Borat," Cohen's first big screen satire. Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum  summed it up thusly: "What's shocking this time is how tame Sacha Baron Cohen's newest wild man is, for all the kerfuffle the comedian can stir up on the

Courtesy Sonya and Wade Schenewolf

Sonya and Wade Schenewolf, of Easton, Penn., were getting ready for their day on Tuesday morning when they heard a loud booming sound from outside. Unfortunately, they knew what it was before going outside. A car had hit their house, again-the third time that's happened in just the last six months.

"My house got hit in December, my house got hit in March and my house got hit in May," Sonya Schenewolf said with disbelief. "And a year before that, my car and my garage got hit."

She has had serious damage to her garage, car and front porch from the various accidents.

"This is a 30 miles per hour zone. We do live on a curve and our house is close to the road, but, recently, the township put in a two-lane bridge directly across from my house," she said. "If you come across that bridge and you don't stop,

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Never once mentioning President George W. Bush by name, or acknowledging that the former president endorsed his candidacy Tuesday, Mitt Romney spent the morning in Florida railing against President Obama for doing too little to solve the debt crisis he inherited from his "predecessor."

"I love this country, as I know you do, but I'm concerned about this country," Romney said on his first public campaign swing through the battleground state since winning the primary here in January. "I'm concerned about the debt. I'm concerned about the spending.

"I find it incomprehensible that a president could come to office and call his predecessor's record irresponsible and unpatriotic and then do almost nothing to fix it."

Bush told ABC News Tuesday, as an elevator door closed, "I'm for Mitt Romney," joining the rest of his family in backing the presumptive GOP nominee. But the Romney campaign, and now the candidate, has since remained mum on the endorsement.

Bush's