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Our conflicted relationship with animals

Why do we get so angry with animal abusers, but eat more animals than ever before? An expert provides some clues

Fertility issue pregnant with discord

In 2004, Diet lawmaker Seiko Noda wrote a book titled "Watashi wa Umitai" ("I Want to Give Birth"), which chronicled her years of infertility treatments and the subsequent pregnancy that ended in miscarriage. Two years later she ended her six-year relationship with fellow politician Yosuke Tsuruho, who in the book was portrayed as being against the treatments. Though Noda always referred to ...

Spoiled system: Eating healthier comes with a price for families

As Revisha Martinez pondered the cost of peaches and watermelon at her local King Soopers recently, she became the last stop in a complicated food-production system that critics believe has turned healthy eating into expensive eating.

Jody Scheckter: From Formula One to life in the slow lane

Being told to "belt up" barely 10 minutes into an interview would normally bode badly but Jody Scheckter means well enough. The one-time enfant terrible of motor racing knows better than most what happens when he steps on the gas and he is not taking any chances. It's hardly Monza, but I swear the needle hits 60 as the grass blurs outside my window.

Researchers alter cow diets to help environment

The by-products of the animal's digestive system also are among nature's problems, both in the air and in impaired water bodies such as the Chesapeake Bay. Hristov, Lee and their colleagues are experimenting with sophisticated diets to reduce harmful pollutants that emerge from, ahem, both ends of the cow.