Pauling center top priority for campaign (Corvallis Gazette-Times) The centerpiece of the Campaign for OSU is a new Linus Pauling Science Center, for which the university has received $77 million in private and public donations. [News Source]

Rockies Find That Having a Good Team Isn?t Always Enough (New York Times) Like so many of their National League brethren in the past four years, the Colorado Rockies have struggled to compete against the American League representative. [News Source]

Facing the bitter truth behind our sweet indulgence . Chocolate: theobroma, the food of the gods that kills dogs. It melts in your mouth or in your hand and makes you keep wanting it, even when your body has had enough. It's bad for our figures when we eat all we want, but also good for us in moderation. [News Source]

Listen up fatso - we are letting you off far too lightly. Individuals can no longer be held responsible for obesity, according to a recent headline. Because of the abundance of food and our sedentary lifestyles, it is not the problem of fatness that should amaze us as much as the fact that anyone succeeds in remaining lean. [News Source]

NIH grant will increase ethnic diversity of major database for autism studies. A multi-institution team led by USC faculty has received a five-year, $8.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for an ambitious effort to survey the genetic, physical and behavioral profiles of children with autism. [News Source]

Household paint top lead threat for Del. kids. For 140 of Delaware's youngest children last year, life began with a toxic dose of a common but poisonous metal: lead. [News Source]

Eat your words, all who scoff at organic food. Its unassuming location belies its importance. Sandwiched between Hadrian’s Wall and the busy A69 road to Newcastle upon Tyne is a 725-acre farm that will help to determine the nation’s future eating habits. [News Source]

Should corn remain king? From his West Lafayette nursing home, former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz lets the makers of the documentary King Corn in on "America's best kept secret." Americans spend only between 16 percent and 17 percent of their take-home pay on food, Butz tells the camera. [News Source]

Clinic weighs in to aid obese mothers to be. Scotland's first clinic for overweight mothers-to-be is being set up in a bid to cut the death rate among obese pregnant women and their babies. [News Source]

Red meat and alcohol ‘raise the risk of cancer’. Eating red meat and drinking alcohol in even small quantities increases the risk of developing cancer, a group of world renowned scientists will warn this week. [News Source]

Fall harvest of fruits, vegetables (The Record) Why: Butternut squash soup. Isn't that a good enough reason? It's thick, satisfying and simple to make. Just seed and cube the squash, add onion, garlic and water or fat-free chicken broth, cook until the squash is soft, and puree in the blender. Tasty! [News Source]

Germ-fighting clothes are Purell for the fashionista (New York Daily News) Don't bother packing your purse with Vitamin C or nasty nasal sprays this season. Instead, fight the flu with fashion. Germ-deterring duds are the latest craze - a look that's both posh and practical. [News Source]