Costing a modest $35 million to produce, "Lions for Lambs" was aimed at an older, thinking-person's audience compared to the crowds that turn out for Cruise's action movies. military convoy in eastern Baghdad's Baladiyat district on Sunday but killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded four other Iraqis, police said. Released by Miramax, "No Country for Old Men" is one of the year's most acclaimed films, starring Tommy Lee Jones as a weary Texas sheriff, Javier Bardem as a ruthless killer and...

I am an enthusiastic supporter of Chicago's Water Street facility that recycles batteries and other toxic materials that cannot be recycled in blue bags. Until sitting on bamboo mats becomes mainstream, we all need furniture, but it's still possible to furnish & decorate our homes with stuff with zero impact on our physical world. In the fall, we fill with dry leaves from our yard and then start mixing in the raw compost material all fall, winter and through the next spring and summer. Not...

The major parties need to outline a vision for agriculture after largely ignoring the sector so far in the campaign, the National Farmers Federation said yesterday. Families with teenagers will get subsidised dental care under a Labor government in a half-billion-dollar plan to help 1 million teenagers visit the dentist. Inner Melbourne would run on renewable energy within a decade under a Greens proposal to fit households with solar hot water systems and put solar panels on public...

Different weight classes of feeder lambs were offered this week, however a mostly steady undertone was noted. Note: all classes of sheep sold by the pound and goats by the head unless otherwise noted. The supply was comprised of 69% kids; nannies and billies made up the balance of the supply. Wheat was sharply lower on weak export sales, break in the financial markets, along with fund selling. Buyer demand good for all classes. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or...

Two outbreaks on British farms this summer, both linked to a government lab and a private vaccine manufacturer, have done little to bolster their confidence. For a half-century, the nation's only experiments on the world's most devastating livestock virus have occurred on this clandestine government-run island, separated from the mainland by more than a mile of choppy water. foot-and-mouth outbreak would be catastrophic to livestock industries, far more deadly diseases are already studied...