Wheat to Increase to Record, USDA Undersecretary Says (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Average wheat prices will rise to a record next year even as farmers increase planting, U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Keenum said. [News Source]

Q&A: Dr Phil’s Prescription for Syndication Success (TV Week) It’s hard to believe that 2008 will mark 10 years since Dr. Phil McGraw made his first appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” He soon transformed Tuesday afternoons when he became a regular weekly guest on the show. [News Source]

Excerpt from ‘Skinny Bitch in the Kitch’ (USA Today) Skinny Bitch in the Kitch [News Source]

Is atomic radiation as dangerous as we thought? A mounting number of studies are coming to some surprising conclusions about the dangers of nuclear radiation. It might not be as deadly as is widely believed. [News Source]

Leading maroon (The Bryan-College Station Eagle) Elsa Murano still remembers the plume of rising smoke and the acrid smell of jet fuel that emanated from the Pentagon after terrorists crashed an airp ... [News Source]

Farmers split on identifying their livestock (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) BARRE - A Massachusetts farmers group has asked the state Department of Agricultural Resources not to turn over data to the federal government identifying the location of poultry and livestock in the state. [News Source]

Richard Matheson’s 1954 book ‘I Am Legend’ twisted sci-fi and horror in a scary new direction (Chicago Sun-Times) 'Robert Neville stood in the cold blackness of his house, listening to the vampires scream," wrote Richard Matheson in his 1954 novel I Am Legend . "Everything is gone, everything. The world's gone mad." His words still resonate, echoing contemporary fears of our world on the brink of chaos. [News Source]

Farmers split on identifying their livestock (Worcester Telegram & Gazette) BARRE - A Massachusetts farmers group has asked the state Department of Agricultural Resources not to turn over data to the federal government identifying the location of poultry and livestock in the state. [News Source]

Medical biotechnology research at the University (Times of Malta) Researchers working at the University's Laboratory of Molecular Genetics. Medical biotechnology is one of several research areas where various groups of University of Malta academics, working with postgraduate students, are currently producing interesting results. [News Source]

Report: Japan may ease beef restrictions (The Springfield News-Leader) Tokyo -- 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]