The Edwardian era, from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 to the expiration of her obese but happy son Edward VII (who announced her passing to friends at Osborne House with the words Gentlemen, you may smoke ) from a not entirely surprising double heart attack in 1910, was the Golden Age not just of cricket, motoring, amateurism and one-piece swimsuits for chaps, but of eating. The Edwardian era, from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 to the expiration of her obese but happy son...

The store also offers four types of lawn seed, five types of fertilizer, pelletized lime, culverts and piping, concrete inlet boxes for drainage and polyseptic tanks. Along with top soil, the store sells six varieties of mulch, decorative stone, quarry stone, flower bed stone, garden boulders and Field Rite a specialized mix of clay and sand for use on athletic fields. With all of the new homes and developments being built in the area, there has been more and more of a demand to deliver...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Millions of Alaska hatchery salmon were fed food contaminated with the same substance behind a massive pet food recall across the country. The melamine-infused fish feed - which has been recalled by the distributor - is believed to pose no significant health hazard to humans or the fish, according to officials with the state Department of Fish and Game. Food and Drug Administration - said any melamine the fish consume is likely to pass out of their systems in days,...

Is the war in Iraq lost? I think the best way to judge that is to list the war s long and evolving lists of objectives, and then compare them with the situation on the ground. War supporters, on the other hand, refuse to in any way acknowledge oil as a reason to go to war, as if the fact that Iraq sits atop the world s second-largest oil supply is merely a nutty coincidence. Goal: Neutralize Iraq s WMD program Result: Mission Accomplished Prior to the war, the Bush administration claimed...

The new, clean diesels will be equipped with soot-cleaning technology and most, if not all, will meet the strictest emissions standards. And there are those who wonder if the new diesels are good and clean enough to get people to forget the diesels of the 1970s and 1980s, with their sooty emissions and, in some cases, very poor reliability. Volkswagen, which for decades has sold diesels here, plans to convert to new cleaner diesel technology starting in 2008. Meanwhile, the growing...

It seems that after recent terrorist attacks in Russia, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, many of them attributed to the influence of Osama Bin Laden, some Arab journalists, intellectuals and clerics have started to reflect upon, as one headline put it, "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims. The American Reporter Vol. It seems that after recent terrorist attacks in Russia, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, many of them attributed to the influence of Osama Bin...