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No offence, but it's just like junk food. First, I think both men will have their work cut out trying to recruit the game's top talent because - in Australia, at least - guys such as Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds and Matthew Hayden are all contracted to their national body. Mark Waugh . April 8, 2007 TALK of two billionaires planning to take Twenty20 cricket to a new dimension by creating rebel competitions seems to be a bit far-fetched. First, I think both men...

The dispute is over pay freezes and pension cuts at one of the Britains largest food processors. Workers are concerned that agency staff used across the company do not get the same treatment as permanent staff. You may republish if you include an active link to the original and leave this notice in place. Strike suspended at Grampian foods. The Transport and General Workers Union has suspended its planned 24-hour strike action on Thursday by over 2,600 pork and poultry workers at Grampian...

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Johanns: Meat, dairy industries to face ethanol-linked challenges. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The next two years will be tough for the pork, chicken and dairy industries as the corn they use for feed is increasingly diverted to ethanol production, Agriculture Secretary said Monday.

Beer drinking, like tea drinking, first evolved as a way to slake a thirst and avoid disease: fermentation, like boiling, is a great way to kill the bugs in water. The characteristic flavour and aroma of a beer depends, in part, on raw materials, such as malt, hops and the yeast strain used to effect fermentation, the all-important conversion of sugar from the malted grain into alcohol, according to Dr Chris Bolton of Coors. The characteristic flavour and aroma of a beer depends, in part,...

The fall of our empire just might be the junk food. What will they derive from cemeteries that reveal a sudden downturn in American life expectancy when our junk food generations begin dying of heart disease and arteriosclerosis in middle age? So what will future anthropologists say about us? What conclusions will they draw from the super-sized coffins and the skeletal remains with missing toes, amputated by diabetes? Or from the ruins of all the red and yellow plastic roof restaurants...

They found eating foods rich in cocoa resulted in lower blood pressure levels -- enough to match levels reached with medication. A team of researchers from the University Hospital of Cologne analyzed data from previous studies that looked at the benefits of tea and cocoa. The benefits are believed to come from compounds known as polyphenols (or flavonoids), explained Dr. Their report covered exactly 10 studies on cocoa with a total of 173 participants, a third of whom had high blood...

A few large national processors control the price and farmers have no say in what they get paid. The vision comes from longtime farming activist Anthony Pollina, whose Vermont Milk Company is successfully moving ahead on many fronts in a groundbreaking effort to put more money in farmers' pockets. Pollina, founder of the farm advocacy group Rural Vermont, a former gubernatorial candidate and now a weekday radio talk show host on WDEV in Waterbury, says the goal of the company he co-founded...