And, in 2003, a group of hungry artists from the University of Western Australia grew kidney bean-size steaks from biopsied frogs and prenatal sheep cells. Hoping to serve something, well, beefier than kelp on moon bases and Mars colonies, the scientists successfully grew goldfish muscle in a nutrient broth. Using pig stem cells, scientists have been growing lab meat for years, and it could be hitting deli counters sooner than you think. It sounds like a sci-fi nightmare: giant sheets of...

BY DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press "Lions for Lambs," the preachy, star-driven first release of United Artists under Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner's management, seems to ask every question imaginable about the war on terrorism while offering not a hint of answers. BY DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press "Lions for Lambs," the preachy, star-driven first release of United Artists under Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner's management, seems to ask every question imaginable...

Back in 1873, a dairy farmer from Ohio brought cows, horses and sheep to Hokkaido, and then stayed to help farmers in the region improve their farming techniques. The distribution of surplus skim milk from the United States at Japanese schools has helped popularize milk and led to a resurgence in the dairy industry beginning in the late 1950s. The northern Japanese farmer would like to expand his herd by environmental regulations and market conditions make that difficult. SENDAI, Japan...

By JON MORGAN - The Dominion Post . Thursday, 8 November 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say Eating red meat is a cause of cancer, the World Cancer Research Fund said in a five-year roundup of science published last week. By JON MORGAN - The Dominion Post . Thursday, 8 November 2007 Email a Friend . Printable View . Have Your Say Related Links Subscribe to Archivestuff Have your say Eating red meat is a cause of cancer,...

Costing a modest $35 million to produce, "Lions for Lambs" was aimed at an older, thinking-person's audience compared to the crowds that turn out for Cruise's action movies. military convoy in eastern Baghdad's Baladiyat district on Sunday but killed a 12-year-old girl and wounded four other Iraqis, police said. Released by Miramax, "No Country for Old Men" is one of the year's most acclaimed films, starring Tommy Lee Jones as a weary Texas sheriff, Javier Bardem as a ruthless killer and...

I am an enthusiastic supporter of Chicago's Water Street facility that recycles batteries and other toxic materials that cannot be recycled in blue bags. Until sitting on bamboo mats becomes mainstream, we all need furniture, but it's still possible to furnish & decorate our homes with stuff with zero impact on our physical world. In the fall, we fill with dry leaves from our yard and then start mixing in the raw compost material all fall, winter and through the next spring and summer. Not...