Agriculture in the Balsas valley originated and diversified during the warm, wet, postglacial period following the much cooler and drier climate in the final phases of the last ice age. New charcoal and plant microfossil evidence from Mexico's Central Balsas valley links a pivotal cultural shift, crop domestication in the New World, to local and regional environmental history. Along with pollen from grasses and other dryland plants, the Podocarpus indicates the environment encountered by...

Entrees, which change from day to day, are standard Southern Indiana favorites mashed potatoes, ham and some type of beans, along with southwestern and Asian selections. We found a beautiful new look of a wonderful old landmark and found a diversity in foods at the restaurants throughout the complex. This is served with separate dishes of sour cream, sweet butter, bacon and cheddar cheese. David and I usually shy away from buffets and the tendency to overeat, but this is one exception. The...

Dow Jones announces that a director representing the Bancroft family, the company's controlling shareholders, informed the company's board that "the mission of Dow Jones may be better accomplished in combination or collaboration with another organization, which may include News Corporation. Dow Jones announces that a director representing the Bancroft family, the company's controlling shareholders, informed the company's board that "the mission of Dow Jones may be better accomplished in...

The symptoms of this eating of the seed corn are showing up more and more in the daily product. The quarterly dividend is what counts, which mostly looks pretty good to shareholders just now as owners quietly milk someone else's earlier investments. And with the steep price paid for media companies nowadays, one can't afford to alienate creditors, investors or customers. This in turn stems from falling revenue as armies of ungrateful young surfers now forage for their news on the Internet,...

Bugs, socks, paper bags, egg cartons, books and bubbles - not store-bought, but the kind you make with dish detergent, water and corn syrup. Studies show that students can lose two to three months or more of math and reading skills over summer break, said Ehrman, the parent involvement coordinator for Pasco's Title I schools -- schools that receive federal money to help large populations of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Studies show that students can lose two to three months...

While we at home argue about how the war is being waged or, sometimes, about whether our soldiers, sailors, aviators and Marines should be in it at all, they do battle for us. troops continue to fight and die in Iraq? Are they being used effectively in Afghanistan? Even as that controversy grows stronger and, yes, more bitter each day, the troops go about their duties. We hope it won't be the case, but there is the chance that on this very day, as our nation pays homage to its fallen...