Report: Couch Potatoes Growing
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By Stephen Ohlemacher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON -- Americans spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, surfing the Internet and reading newspapers than anything else except breathing.
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By Kathy Gilbert, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Mar. 12--Four new community-supported agriculture programs have opened in  the Chattanooga area, a development some suggest signals more interest in  locally grown, organic produce.
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There's more bad news for those  pudgy couch potatoes, junk food junkies and TV devotees -- and  this time it really hits them where it hurts.
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Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root across the globe, accounting for about &#36;44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to a report Wednesday by an industry group.
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The United Nations on Thursday officially launches "International Year of the Potato 2008," an initiative mocked in private by some diplomats but enabling governments to raise much-needed funds for agricultural research.
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By American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 13--Admit it: You're a couch potato.   Or at least, you've got your favorite TV shows -- and one of your favorite things to do is to sit and watch them.
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bug text As worms proliferated through the first half of the year, attacks gained in sophistication. Also: A start-up fights zombies.
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Couch-potato British children are a short "chill out" from being the world's laziest, according to an international study. UK youngsters spend 9.4 hours in front of a computer games console or TV screen per week, just behind Australian children's 10-hour average.
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U.S. growers produce nearly $35  billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug  the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat  combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study  released on Monday.
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By Monica Soto Ouchi, Seattle Times  It's suddenly getting cozy in the living room.
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A sparsely populated western state best known for potatoes is becoming a magnet for tech entrepreneurs. The slow pace, absence of traffic and low-rise landscape has helped lure 800 tech companies to the state.
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Tycho: New one's up, for last week's "The Spore Cult." Feed is here. (CW)TB
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Potatoes, known to help bowel health, may also have a beneficial effect on the whole immune system, according to Spanish researchers.
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U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually, making the illegal drug the country's largest cash crop, bigger than corn and wheat combined, an advocate of medical marijuana use said in a study released on Monday.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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It was a year of rampant uncertainty for the unsuspecting couch potato.
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Weeds sometimes hide fertile fields of growth.