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Honda Motor Co. and a Japanese research firm, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, announced today that they have discovered a way to make ethanol fuel out of the cellulose and hemicellulose in plants’ leaves and stalks.  Previously, ethanol from plants was made mostly from sugar in the plants.  This should not only make ethanol production more economical, it should use more of the plant, leaving less waste.