Battle lines are drawn in Nashville over the governor s plan to increase the cigarette tax to pay for education. The new formula would mean more money for every school district and would end the competition between districts for the scraps that fall from the legislative table. Bredesen wants to spend all of that new money and a portion of the state surplus on a restructured school funding formula. This comes after years of tight budgets that forced the state to make painful cuts in the...

Oscar-winner Roman Polanski for instance has a middle-aged couple out to see erotica disturbed by the groans of the only other movie-goer in the cinema. The pick of auteur directors from across the globe handed the world's premier film festival a joint 60th birthday present on Sunday, a collective work on cinema. The Coen brothers, US Oscar winners too, send the star of their latest Texas-set thriller showing at Cannes - No Country For Old Men - to an arthouse cinema wearing his cowboy hat...

As tobacco farming declined he turned his attention to the Taylor wood stoves and grape harvesting machines. Later, Oren designed and holds several patents for tobacco harvesting equipment that he built. Together, the Taylor brothers and the rest of the family built Taylor Manufacturing, a string of diverse enterprises that includes making farm equipment and innovative wood stoves. As the tobacco farming market faded, they expanded into wine making and stock car racing. Ron is the talker...

Marcus and her team decided to study the effectiveness of web-based channels because of their potential to be available to larger populations at minimal cost. Prior studies have shown that direct mail programs geared at changing behavior in order to boost a person's physical activity can work, but come with built-in drawbacks, including the lack of immediate feedback (due to the delay in mailing), lack of immediate interactivity, and even the cost of postage. Prior studies have shown that...

To see a list of items associated with a particular tag, click on the tag below. He instructs visitors to crouch down as they make their way past the banana grove, catch a glimpse of a wedding cake and salivate at the idea of finding strips of bacon. Tours are offered every half-hour in the summer, on the hour in spring and early autumn and every two hours in late autumn. What the ranger shows off on his 90-minute guided tours are creatively named formations sculpted by seeping, dripping...