The Agriculture Department recommends no more than 12 teaspoons a day; that is roughly one 12-ounce soda and a slice of bread. Sugar content always is listed in grams, but few people know there are 4 grams in a teaspoon and, unlike the listings for salt and fats, there's not a clue as to how many grams of sugar is too many. That is up 23 percent in the last 25 years, and is a major factor in soaring rates of obesity and diabetes. Besides, she says, overeating and not exercising is...

A soil testing kit, labels for plant names, a dial seed sower and many new hybrids of plants are also available. First of all, the potential sewer problem; whether it's a grassy area; the picture window view; and the angle of the winter sun glare coming into the house (will you still need some shade?) When the fruit is as large as a golf ball, thin to one apple every 4 to 6 inches or leave enough room for the fruit to mature without touching. If the mature fruit is likely to break the...

Democrats in Congress and on the presidential trail are intensifying their high-tax war against prosperity and the so-called rich. The surtax allegedly would raise sufficient revenues to exempt middle-class folks from paying the alternative minimum tax. So, should the Baucus-Grassley plan set up a new multiple tax on capital, it would have negative consequences on economic growth while diminishing the economic clout for risk-taking. Up to now, Blackstone's authoring statement had...

Its products are for the agricultural, industrial and consumer markets. Comcast cites FCC mandate in likely fee increase Comcast corp. said it may increase fees to new and current subscribers as the result of a federal mandate aimed at increasing competition and increasing innovation in the cable set-top-box market. Seed-producer Monsanto raises profit forecast Monsanto co., the world's biggest seed producer, boosted its profit forecast for fiscal 2007 as rising demand for ethanol and...

And that, in turn, has increased by more than 30 percent the price of hay fed to horses, dairy cows and other livestock, in turn placing further pressure on the price of food. Ted Weidert, co-owner at Kaneville Seed and Feed, said he expected prices to increase $20 or $30 a ton or more this year for the alfalfa hay preferred by horse owners. So, if there s a shortage, it s just a supply-and-demand thing, right? This summer, drought in many parts of the country has reduced the supply of...