Puerto Rico: Biotech Island

By CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO

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Humans still evolving as our brains shrink

"When you develop agricultural diets, you might need adaptations to survive on them, the way the digestive systems are regulated," Hawks said.

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Suicides in the downturn raise worries about recession's real cost

ELKHART, Ind.— Coroner John White is presiding over a sad tally in this northern Indiana county, tracking rising numbers of suicides he believes are linked to the lingering recession.

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Obama Faces His Anzio

But while health care won't be Mr. Obama's Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio. Duh???

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A Bad Way to Spend Money

Congress threw good money after bad this week when it voted to extend and expand a wasteful home buyer's tax credit set to expire at the end of the month.

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Farmers Skirt Rules on Gene-Altered Crops, Report Says

As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects, according to an advocacy group's report released Thursday.

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Boom and Gloom

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AIG Contracts Complicate Czar's Pay Cuts, my life is complicated too!

CHICAGO -- U.S. pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg cut compensation at American International Group Inc. by $28.4 million, but employment contracts will funnel additional pay to three top employees, according to a document released by the Treasury Department.

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In Hawaii's Health System, Lessons for Lawmakers, do not be mislead by this article I live there

HONOLULU — Imee Gallardo, 24, has been scooping ice cream at a Häagen-Dazs shop at Waikiki Beach for five years, and during that time the shop has done something its counterparts on the mainland rarely do: it has paid for her health care.

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How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect

In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles in the wabe.

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Where Tasty Morsels Fear to Tread

This is an excellent example of how the government and politicians control the people.

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Chewy Chicken Feet May Quash a Trade War

It seems like the Chinese politicos may understand the needs of the people better than our politicians understand the taxpayers needs here.

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Feeding the future: Saving agricultural biodiversity

But the world's valuable diversity is disappearing incredibly fast. "The figures are quite disturbing," said Dr Bhatti.

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'Non-GMO' Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-Free

Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test products and label those that are largely free of biotech ingredients.

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How Much Do Protests Matter? A Freakonomics Quorum

"Surely speaking up when our upbringing encourages being polite can be the most courageous form of dissent.

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Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector, For more than 10 years so who is the problem

FOR the first time since the Depression, the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. The total number of jobs has grown a bit, but that is only because of government hiring.

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Warship Christened at Maine Shipyard for NY Marine so little exchanged for so much given

BATH, Maine (AP) -- In a solemn ceremony punctuated by talk of courage, service and sacrifice, the mother of a Marine corporal on Saturday christened a warship honoring her son, who died after covering an exploding grenade to protect his comrades in Iraq.

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The Doctor Is Within

"Dream — nothing!" is one of the many things I've heard the 14th Dalai Lama say to large audiences that seem to startle the unprepared.

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The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts, for the masses, what is your suggestion?

THE simple hamburger isn't so simple any more. IT'S AN ART Hold the tomato: the Frenchie burger at DBGB includes a compote instead.

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Organic Farms as Subdivision Amenities

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The bewildered Iowan who converted his farm into a ballpark in "Field of Dreams" in 1989 might reverse the move today. From Vermont to central California, developers are creating subdivisions around organic farms to attract buyers.

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Nestle refused to provide FDA with information, reports show, WE DON'T CARE IF WE POISON YOU!

Associated Press NEW YORK — Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released today show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information. Advertisement

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Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells

Used in gardens, farms, and parks around the world, the weed killer Roundup contains an ingredient that can suffocate human cells in a laboratory, researchers say

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