The company that sells Little Debbie snacks announced a recall Sunday of peanut butter crackers because of a potential link to a deadly salmonella outbreak. ...more

January 19, 2009

A peanut butter maker that sells bulk supplies to institutions issued a nationwide recall of peanut butter from one its plants because of possible contamination with salmonella. ...more

January 14, 2009

We are the United States of Stuff Buyers. Seventy percent of our gross domestic product is tied to consumption. But these days, many of us are also short on cash, either literally or psychologically. ...more

December 14, 2008

As a software developer who worked with NASA, Timothy Childs built vision-tracking systems for the space shuttle. Now he has a new venture that he says is out of this world: chocolate. ...more

September 2, 2008

A whopper of an exhibit in New York. ...more

December 26, 2007

Protesting farmworkers picketed Burger King headquarters in Miami last week, trying to shame the fast-food giant into joining two competitors that have agreed to pay field hands an extra penny per pound for the tomatoes the companies buy to garnish their food. ...more

December 8, 2007

Each morning, Eric Peoples sits up in bed and starts his day with a cough. A deep, long, hacking cough. ...more

October 28, 2007