Report: Japan to consider easing restrictions on US beef imports (KXXV Waco) Associated Press - December 7, 2007 11:33 AM ET TOKYO (AP) - Japanese news reports say Japan will consider easing restrictions on U.S. beef imports. [News Source]

Report: Japan to considering letting in more U.S. beef (Houston Chronicle) Japan will consider easing restrictions on U.S. beef imports, in an apparent compromise after months of pressure from Washington to do so, according to a news report today. [News Source]

Japan may ease US beef import rule (AP via Yahoo! News) Japan will consider easing restrictions on U.S. beef imports, in an apparent compromise after months of pressure from Washington to do so, according to a news report Friday. [News Source]

U.S. says opposes age limit on beef to Japan (Reuters via Yahoo! Malaysia News) TOKYO, Dec 7 - A senior U.S. official said on Friday that the United States had expressed dissatisfaction about possibly raising the age limit on Japan's U.S. beef imports in talks in Tokyo this week with Japanese counterparts. [News Source]

Where’s the Best Beef? (Time Magazine) No wonder good steak is hard to find: it's going extinct, along with the elderly cattle it comes from. For years I have been chasing down the secret to the ultimate steak, and I had reason to believe it lay somewhere in northern Spain. [News Source]

Japan Plans to Relax U.S. Beef Import Restrictions (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Japan plans to relax restrictions on U.S. beef, allowing imports of meat from cows up to 30 months old, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura today. [News Source]

Oregon seeks comment on deer, elk ranch rules (The Mail Tribune) State wildlife biologists are publicly floating a set of potential new restrictions on Oregon's 16 commercial deer and elk ranches meant to ensure diseases are not spread to wild herds like they have in other states. [News Source]

Demand soars for Oprah Winfrey’s Barack Obama campaign rallies (New York Daily News) From the hysteria surrounding Oprah Winfrey's arrival tomorrow to stump for Barack Obama, you'd think every caucus-goer was getting a new car. [News Source]