Residential development will be limited to a primary residence, farm worker housing and associated agricultural structures located away from Bloomfield Road on each of the two parcels, Middlebrook said. The acreage is covered by open meadows and oak woodlands and the district will retain an easement on the property. The property contains rolling hills, open grassland and a picturesque red barn. The Sonoma County Agricultural and Open Space District added more than 900 acres of space...

But penicillin was the first such drug to be studied closely, industrially refined, concentrated and pressed into edible tablets for the bodywide treatment of infection. This idea was not widely implemented at first, but when World War II began presenting Allied doctors with wounded men by the thousands upon thousands, the survival benefits of oral antibiotic treatment quickly became apparent; penicillin-filled soldiers were able to stave off infection as never before, healing more quickly...

Economists say the surge in milk prices is due to increased demand for ethanol produced by corn--the primary feed for cattle. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. You can send a story to multiple email addresses by separating the email addresses with a semicolon (;) This station will not store your email address or your recipient's email address or use them in any way. That makes the staple more expensive than a gallon of gas. The average price of gas...

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level Home. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level Home. Credit: UCLA Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, the human version of mad cow disease, and other degenerative diseases are more closely related at the molecular level than scientists realized, a team reports this week in an advanced online publication of the journal Nature. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes...

Unless, of course, it happened to fall somewhere within the 300,000 wild acres of the largest, most primitive and perhaps least-known state park in Texas. When ready for public use, perhaps as early as this fall, the primitive campsites will offer little more than a clear spot on the desert floor and lots of splendid isolation. Settled more than a century ago as a high-country sheep and cattle ranch, the park is utterly remote compared to urban Texas but just a few miles west of the larger...