At the World Championships in Lancaster, he serves as game master for a game called Pirate's Cove, and he dresses in pirate's hat and eye patch, carries a bloodied cutlass and a chest and has a parrot on his shoulder. Then there are the strategy games he plays on one of his six computers when he is alone and has no one with whom to share a board game. Lingle has less patience for some of the newer board games from Europe such as Settlers of Catan, where the idea is to build roads, erect...

The pet deaths led to a recall of 60 million cans and pouches of pet food produced by Menu Foods and sold throughout North America under 95 brand names. Wheat gluten itself would not cause kidney failure, but the common ingredient could have been contaminated, the FDA said. State officials did not say how they believe Aminopterin got into the now-recalled pet food, though they said no criminal investigations had been launched. The company's chief executive and president said Menu Foods...

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The Earth Policy Institute on Wednesday reported that ethanol is driving food prices skyward, with corn prices doubling in the last year, soybean futures growing 50 percent, and wheat futures trading at their highest level in 10 years. But while industry insiders say much of the spike is due to futures traders betting that biofuels will grow those prices in the future, EPI President Lester Brown argues that ethanol production itself is taking away available sources. The stage is now set...

She didn't improve and by Wednesday, the Morellis decided to put her down rather than have the little white cat with gray patches suffer. Because Skeeter is an indoor cat, and one that stays pretty close to her personal domain, the Morellis had struggled to figure out what toxic item she could have gotten into. Morelli said she wanted to share their pet's story because it is easy to feel isolated in Montana and think that national recalls don't affect people here. Authorities in New York...