Washington Man Grows 1,229-Pound Pumpkin
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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - A retired Washington state firefighter who grows giant pumpkins in his spare time produced the winning pumpkin Monday at the 31st annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off...
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Propelled by sharply higher energy and food costs, wholesale prices soared up by 1.7 percent in October, the largest increase since early 1990.
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Here's a mnemonic device for the season: When you think about carving your pumpkins, get ready to pare your taxes.
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Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop.
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Eben Bayer grew up on a farm in Vermont learning the intricacies of mushroom harvesting with his father. Now the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate is using that experience to create an organic insulation made from mushrooms.
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Halloween is bigger than you think. Who'll be eating the sweetest profits?
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Here's a mnemonic device for the  season: When you think about carving your pumpkins, get ready  to pare your taxes.
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Dwight Phillips led a 1-2 US finish in the men&#39;s long jump Thursday, jumping 28 feet, 2\\ inches on his first try to win the gold medal.
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MONTGOMERY, NY - The leaves on the maples are approaching full color. Just like the hardwoods back in Maine. Pumpkins sit on front steps, although here, in the Hudson River Valley, they&#39;re called stoops.
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Leaf it to New Hampshire, where a bank branch was held up by a man disguised as a tree.
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Americans spent more than $2 billion on Halloween candy in 2003, according to the National Confectioner's Association.
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Thomas Handwerker leans close to a young orchid, just over from China, to inspect its deep green leaves. He knows exactly where a long, flowery spindle will sprout. He's a career horticulturist, but he doesn't know a thing about growing phalaenopsis orchids. Handwerker is counting on farmers along the eastern shore region of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia to do the work of cultivating this brood of 30,000 orchids.
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YOUNGSTERS are being invited to take part in a contest to grow their own pumpkins and sunflowers this summer.  The fun competition is being run by Durham County Council to introduce children to gardening and plant biology, as well as raising awareness of home composting.
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A scientist who developed new ways to process, transport and store large amounts of fruits and vegetables while maintaining their nutritional value was announced Monday as winner of the 2007 World Food Prize.
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The Canadian actor has become a US citizen.
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PINGREE, Idaho  - Earlier this year, Wada Farms,  which grow more than a billion potatoes a year, dramatically  changed the labeling on its packaging.
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FOXBORO, Mass. -- In a fresh slant on the standard light-bulb joke, instead of asking how many Seahawks it takes to screw in a light bulb, one wonders how many light bulbs it takes before the Seahawks can screw one in without dropping it.