Vendors have signed up to sell goods at the market on Saturday mornings throughout the winter because the open-air facility has added roll-down doors to keep out the cold. Using a federal grant, the market installed roll-down doors at one section of its open-air building in the Warehouse District. The Poultry House will continue to operate six days a week in its free-standing building next to the open-air market. Planned improvements include installing a more pedestrian-friendly walkway...

By recreating an extinct virus that killed as many as 50 million people, scientists race to defeat avian flu before it evolves into a deadlier form. With the shipment of the remaining three genes last spring, he was finally able to inject the entire 1918 virus into mice. For instance, if a chicken farmer who already has a human flu then catches H5N1 from his flock, cells infected with both viruses could produce virion with a mixture of their genes. Around the world, countless influenza...

In 2006, the Michigan Department of Corrections contracted $43 million in bread, dairy products, frozen foods, dry groceries, meats, poultry and seafood. If that prison were to close, it would really hurt the potato farmers and the farming industry, especially in the U. Ward Puflfrey, business manager at the Newberry facility, said about five million pounds of potatoes will be distributed to Newberry, where 12 inmates will package and bag them. Jennifer Granholm s economic directive to...

While some would chalk up the third basemans pre-game routine as a mental disorder or protein deficiency most sports fans acknowledge his game-day menu was part of a larger culture of superstition among athletes. If concealed charms arent your thing, teammates swore by another players pre-game tradition, which they say helped them win the state tournament in 2005. If you wanted to learn about a particular tradition, superstition or lucky charm, all you had to do was ask anyone wearing a...

Eichold says that with outdoor activities, it is extremely important that residents take every effort to reduce their exposure to mosquitoes and that they should keep mosquito repellent with them at all times when working or taking part in recreational activities outdoors. Eichold says that with outdoor activities, it is extremely important that residents take every effort to reduce their exposure to mosquitoes and that they should keep mosquito repellent with them at all times when...