Groceries Grow Elusive for Many in New York City
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The Washington Post\\'s ongoing investigation of the state of medical care and facilities at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the overall military and VA health care systems.
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By Janice L. Habuda, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 4--Parking no longer is an issue, but People Inc. faces continuing delays in its plan to build a group home on land it owns in the City of Lackawanna.
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New York is striking back with better  bagels and tax breaks in its fight to keep motion picture  production in the Big Apple and stem the flight of the industry  to cheaper destinations like Canada.
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The East Village has been dragged up-market, but isnât going without a fight.
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The local-global conundrum, a thoroughly modern predicament, has found its way into a small shelfâs worth of new food books.
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Whole Foods in Manhattan is teaching the locals a new rule of living: the longer the line, the shorter the wait.
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For years, cheap food and feed were taken for granted in the United States. Now the price of some foods is rising sharply, and a blame alert is under way.
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Two months into an effort to compile data on New York's health, officials have found that New Yorkers are too busy, too wary and just too hard to reach.
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The government grocery store has run out of chicken, milk and sugar, but Katiuska Oliveros is still pleased to find rice, margarine and pasta at exceedingly low prices, emblazoned with promotional slogans like "When the people have needs, its revolutionary government responds!" The 27-year-old mother fills her shopping basket, adding in beans, matches and two bottles of cooking oil, and moves on to the cash register where she hands over the equivalent of $5.12 &#151; easily half what she would pay at a commercial supermarket.
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Burger joints beware: New York's calorie crusaders are at it again. City health officials announced Wednesday that they hope to revive their stalled plan to force fast-food chains to add calorie counts to the big menu boards that hang above their counters.
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If it wasn't for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it.
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By SANDY SHORE  DENVER - The streets of New York have never looked so barren.  An occasional taxi or bus motors down a boulevard as people wander aimlessly among eerily vacant buildings. Soon, black helicopters loom overhead and armed soldiers close ranks on the streets below.
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New regulations are keeping some fancy foods out of stores
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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ORCHARD PARK, NYâIn a town that made its culinary reputation on leftover chicken meat, pretty doesn&#39;t count for much. Buffalo is a working class town and nobody at a sold out Ralph Wilson Stadium yesterday
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NEW YORK -- The nation's consumers, uninspired by this season's fashions and rattled by high gas prices and the weak housing market, shopped gingerly last month, extending the misery of retailers who have struggled with a spending slowdown since February.
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New York is better known for tall buildings and crowded streets than farms but a group of environmentalists say Gotham's rooftops could be used to grow enough vegetables to feed the entire city and reduce dependence on far-away farms.