Anti-ageing face creams ‘don’t work’ (but exercise and good diet do) (Daily Mail) Many anti-ageing creams and vitamin supplements are a waste of money, researchers say. Their study found that antioxidants, the 'must-have ingredients' of these products have little or no effect. [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (AP via Yahoo! News) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential — rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. [News Source]

In search of cheap food. Prices for cereal, cookies and hundreds of other items in your grocery store depend increasingly on an oil harvested half a world away. [News Source]

UK must cut greenhouse gases by 80 per cent, says Committee. The UK should cut greenhouse gases by at least 80 per cent by the middle of the century, according to a committee set up to advise the Government on climate change. [News Source]

Mercury a concern in eagles. Bald eagles have been making a soaring comeback in New York, becoming more common along lakes and rivers. But eagles living in the Catskills face a hidden danger carried on the wind from distant coal-fired power plants. [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (AP via Yahoo! News) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential — rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (San Francisco Chronicle) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential _ rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. "See these plants? They can... [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (AP via Yahoo! News) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential — rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (Las Vegas Sun) Sun, Nov 30, 2008 (7:42 a.m.) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential _ rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (San Francisco Chronicle) Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential _ rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. "See these plants? They can... [News Source]

Food crunch opens doors to bioengineered crops (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) By By ELAINE KURTENBACH -- Zeng Yawen's outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential - rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil; rice rich in calcium, vitamins or iron. "See these plants? They can tolerate the cold," Zeng says as he walks through a checkerboard of test fields sown with different rice varieties ... [News Source]

Healthful beet tasty as well (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) To paraphrase Sonny and Cher: “The beet goes on.” OK, so shoot me, I’m a child of the ’60s and I took a little poetic license changing the spelling. Anyone who reads my column knows that this is just my way of saying “new idea for a column.” Photo caption: Beets contain potassium, vitamins A and C, magnesium, riboflavin, iron, copper, calcium and zinc. Photo by File [News Source]