By Meredith Brody Published: July 18, 2007 When tiny Tajine opened in the Tenderloin in 2005, people who managed to squeeze into its miniature space on a gritty block of Jones were delighted by both its delicious food and its amazingly gentle prices. Tajine's recent move to a much larger storefront on Polk, more than tripling its capacity, so excited us especially the prospect of being able to eat there in a large group, impossible in the old location that we invited an entire apartment...

He said it would be more helpful to have North Dakota driver's license exams written in Spanish or read to workers who may have the skills needed to drive but are not fully fluent in English. Lopez said he has a driver's license and a Highway Patrol trooper read the test questions to him. Lopez estimated that 80 percent of the migrant workers who come to work during the harvest leave before winter. He drives semi-trucks for area farmers. Many of them left even before the newspaper ad was...

Specifically, we improved the record-keeping for how we developed our cooking instructions and improved our testing for incoming ingredients per the USDA's request, Childs said. ConAgra has not identified the source of the salmonella in the pot pies, but company officials have said they are confident the pies will be safe because of the changes that were made. For both domestic and international suppliers, ConAgra Foods has put in place measures to ensure the safety of the ingredients that...

In the longer term, it may be possible to produce GM crops with omega3 acids that could be eaten directly, allowing vegetarians to benefit from the nutrients that are usually almost absent from their diets. Both acids, however, are produced only by algae and reach the human body through the fish that eat them, or from meat, milk or eggs from animals reared at least partly on fish meal. Two long-chain omega3 acids, EPA and DHA, are known to play important roles in health, protecting against...

Fullmer called the yield "above average," noting it's still higher than the five-year average of 21. Comment posters are responsible for the opinions they express and the accuracy of the information they provide. Staffing shortages continue as the campaign cranks into full processing mode. The rain caused a loss of about four days, but all in all the harvest went smoothly. One blessing, Fullmer noted, was the lack of freeze delays, "which is unusual. We urge comment writers to treat this...

For decades, he has tried to help his fellow farmers, even as waves of population growth and tough economic times pounded the county. In 1982, Cliff Bailey was a county councilman who helped write the county's first farmland preservation ordinance, which prevented neighborhoods from being built on farmland. It also protected the aromas of dairy herds against complaints by anyone occupying the county's fresh piles of surrounding suburbs. Weston has advocated the need for sustainable ways of...