Yearly Archives: 2006
World Trade Organization locked in dispute between the big and the little
The biggest non-news news of the yet-young summer arrived July 1 when the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization talks melted into a muddy puddle of recriminations as the trade yakkers in Geneva failed to even begin their "last ditch" effort to save the troubled talks.
Nothing scientific about the plane repairs, but trip was science mecca
The trip was off to a good start. Made good time to the Pittsburgh airport, narrowly missing the 100,000 people the shuttle driver said would be converging on the airport to see the Air Force Air Show at 1 p.
So many books
I usually read more than one book at a time. I keep a book by my bed, and maybe one in the bag I take to work, but this summer I'm into overload with the books I've started.
Skin deep wrinkles creep
The world at large is always nattering on about how beauty is only "skin deep", but as far as I'm concerned, that's plenty deep enough.
Soybean growers debate future
ST. LOUIS - U.S. soybean farmers are looking for new ways to build demand for soybeans and soy products by exploring partnership activities with growers in Paraguay.
Pa. farmers fight both drought and flooding in a few chaotic months
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - It seems like it hasn't quit raining since Bryan Swistock voiced worries in mid-April about an impending groundwater drought in Pennsylvania.
New plant blankets areas of Ohio
BELMONT, Ohio - Drive along any road southeastern Ohio this month and you can't miss it. The low-growing, three-leafed greenery with small, bright yellow blossoms seems to border most highways and punctuate the open fields with its presence.
Hog inventories remain unchanged
WASHINGTON - Ohio hog producers had 1,580,000 hogs on hand June 1, unchanged from last year, but 4 percent above last quarter.
Ethanol facility coming to eastern Ohio
COSHOCTON, Ohio - Coshocton Ethanol LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Altra Inc., a California-based developer of renewable fuel projects, has commenced construction on Ohio's first major ethanol production facility in the eastern Ohio/Pennsylvania region based in Coshocton, Ohio.
Canada confirms mad cow disease
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease in a 50-month-old dairy cow from Alberta.
