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11/29/2004
Chow Line: Site helps prevent 'portion distortion' (for 12/3/04)
I recently joined a weight-loss program and started weighing my food. Is there an easier way to tell what correct portion sizes should be? I'm always surprised how small "standard" portions are.
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11/28/2004
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Canaan Firs (for the Week of Nov. 28, 2004)
Dear Twig: What’s a Canaan fir? I saw a bunch for sale on a Christmas-tree lot.
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11/24/2004
Car Accident Claims Life of Ohio State University Scientist Benjamin Stinner
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Benjamin R. Stinner, holder of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation-endowed chair in ecological management in Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, died Nov. 23 in an automobile accident in Wooster, Ohio. He was 50.
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11/19/2004
Chow Line: Bone up on calcium consumption (for 11/28/04)
My teenage daughter rarely drinks milk. How can she get more calcium?
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11/18/2004
Proper Wastewater Treatment Key to Public Health, Clean Waterways
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When more than 1,400 people got sick on Lake Erie's South Bass Island late last summer, the wheels started turning in Karen Mancl's head.
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11/17/2004
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: About Wolverines
Dear Twig: Last week you wrote about buckeyes. You also mentioned wolverines. Can you tell us more about those?
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11/12/2004
Media Advisory: Ohio State Expert Available Regarding Soybean Rust
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio State University research specialist is available to answer questions regarding soybean rust.
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11/12/2004
Don't Panic. Soybean Rust is Manageable
WOOSTER, Ohio — With soybean rust now officially confirmed in the United States, the more educated Ohio growers are about the fungus, the better prepared they will be to manage it if it is ever diagnosed closer to home.
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11/9/2004
Chow Line: More good news on high-fiber foods (for 11/14/04)
Years ago, they said fiber protected against colon cancer. Then it didn't. Now it does again. What's the story?
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11/9/2004
Chow Line: Solving the great caper mystery (for 11/21/04)
I'm trying a new recipe and it calls for capers. I've heard of them before, but never actually cooked with them. What are they, exactly?
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11/8/2004
Considering Cover Crops? Up to $15 Per Acre Available to Sugar Creek Farmers
WOOSTER, Ohio - Cover crops cover a lot of good bases, from cutting erosion to enriching the soil. Now cost-share support to get started growing them is available in Wayne County, Ohio - specifically, in the county's part of the Sugar Creek watershed.
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11/8/2004
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Are Buckeyes Poisonous?
Dear Twig: Someone told me that the buckeye is a poisonous nut. True? I figured you’d know, being a Buckeye and/or a nut and all.
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11/3/2004
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Flowering Kale (for the Week of Nov. 7, 2004)
Dear Twig: It’s cold out. It’s frosty. And I just saw a healthy green plant in a garden. Not only that, it was pink. Not only that, it looked like a bowling ball wearing a petticoat. What was it?
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11/1/2004
Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Cackling Geese
Dear Twig: I hear there’s something called a Cackling Goose now. What is it? I saw a picture of one and it looks like a regular Canada Goose.
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