U.S. farm wives out of kitchen and off the farm
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Across the U.S. Midwest, women are keeping farms running, not by driving trucks or feeding cows, but by working in stores, offices and factories.
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By Tara Tuckwiller  tara@wvgazette.com  A few farmers along the Ohio River are resorting to a 1930s Dust Bowl tactic - cutting down trees so their cattle can eat the leaves - as most of West Virginia is now in a drought.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 3--Traditional commercial farms continue to disappear under subdivisions and commercial nodes in Clark and Cowlitz counties, while only scattered major farms remain in business.
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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.
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Americans, as a whole, have lost touch with the ritual of the shared homemade meal. No wonder we have no idea how to behave at Thanksgiving.
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Women now entering their 30s want prospective partners willing to break from traditional gender roles.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Mar. 6--TRACY -- Some residents live in homes heated by ovens. Others sleep on rear patios fashioned into makeshift apartments. They pay rent to stay there.
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A kitchen, known by the Spanish name La Cocina, is a shared-use space created two years ago to provide a platform for women entrepreneurs without assets.
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Many who fled snow for the Sun Belt are moving back to be near family.
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SIRIN VALLEY, Pakistan  - Sitting on the floor of an earthquake-damaged house, 25 women from Jigal village in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province listen to a veterinarian doctor tell them about animal husbandry.
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The Humane Society of the Black Hills removed 150-200 dogs from the rural residence of an elderly woman at Provo in southwest South Dakota.
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Martha Stewart, flanked by US Marshals, leaves after sentencing at Manhattan federal court, in New York in this July 16, 2004 file photo.
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In Baltimore and elsewhere around the country, subprime mortgages, which are driving the foreclosure rate, have gone disproportionately to women.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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By Karen Holzmeister  CASTRO VALLEY -- Yet another former chicken ranch is in the news, facing the competing issues of preservation versus development.   Hayman Homes of Burlingame is temporarily shelving plans to subdivide 10.5 acres on Proctor Road for 22 homes.
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Now that the women of "Sex and the City" are off the streets, the nation's eyes are turning to a different quartet in a leafy suburban subdivision.
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A retiree likes the idea of being closer to her neighbors. A couple from Ohio won't have to cut the grass anymore. A lawyer looks forward to being able to walk to work.