Food supply fears grow as weather tightens crop outlook
Weather woes threaten supplies and prices for food into fall and next winter. Drought and reduced rainfall threaten California arbors, irrigation, and energy for processing. Despite current normal egg milk and meat output, futures show higher prices as cattle slaughter and pork supplies shift. wholesale prices already rose in February.
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New X-Ray Machine Cuts Breast Radiation Dose
Philadelphia report on an electron radiography device at Thomas Jefferson University promising to reduce mammography radiation by about tenfold. Dr. Gary Shaber notes the Xonics system uses static charge on mylar with a liquid developer and high pressure xenon gas to image breasts with roughly 150 millirads versus 1 rad at typical clinics. Research funded by a National Cancer Institute grant aims to refine detectors in a tissue-like phantom to measure radiation levels and ensure safety.
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Should She Be Buried In Sports Car
A temporary administrator is named for Sandra Ilene West estate while a court decides if she should be buried in her sports car. Two wills exist. one favors burial next to her husband in a lace nightgown and Ferrari, the other leaves most assets to a San Antonio lawyer with no burial note. A hearing is set in about 10 days. The coroner has not determined her cause of death.
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Fred Semaan
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The Littlest Horse Thieves review by Bob Thomas
In a 1909 northern England coal village the three youngsters plot to save ponies from the glue factory. A heartfelt, if predictable, Disney tale with strong British support and Rosemary Sisson's script despite MPAA rating discussions.
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Associated Press
England
Charles Jarrett
Anne of
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His Chickens Don't Cluck Suit Filed in Pa Court
In Scranton Pa Francis Kuranda owner of Kuranda Farm Fresh Poultry Inc of Lake Ariel filed a $1 million lawsuit in Common Pleas Court alleging his chickens fell sick and stopped clucking due to the feed. Attorney Roger Mattes presented charts claiming productivity declined from the feed while the suit named Montgomery Bucks Farm Inc and six feed sellers as defendants with two more added later.
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Lake Ariel B.C
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Aew Sachsey Wranda
Roger Mattes
Montgomery Bucks Farm, Inc
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