Rocky Mountain Labs expanding research (KPAX Missoula) Adding a new bio safety lab [News Source]

New ag chief hits ground running (Iowa Farmer) There has been no shortage of problems or concerns to face for new USDA Secretary Ed Schafer. Since taking office in January, Schafer, the former governor of North Dakota has been thrust into the middle of negotiations for the new farm bill. [News Source]

Lessons learned from largest U.S. meat recall (AG Weekly) Not since Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book “The Jungle” has the American meat market been this shaken. [News Source]

Lost in the Sahel. Along Africa’s harsh frontier between desert and forest, crossing some lines can be fatal. [News Source]

Schafer addresses farm bill, Canadian BSE and Cuban trade (The Prairie Star) There has been no shortage of problems or concerns to face for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new secretary, Ed Schafer. [News Source]

The almanac (Moldova.org) Today is Thursday, March 20, the 80th day of 2008 with 286 to follow.This is the first day of spring.The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Venus and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include Roman poet Ovid in 43 B.C.; adventurer and writer Edward Judson, originator of the dime novel, writting ... [News Source]

The almanac (UPI) UPI Almanac for Thursday, March 20, 2008. [News Source]

They died, but their story is alive (Orlando Sentinel) Listen to the words. Rwanda. Srebrenica. Darfur. [News Source]

KILLING TIME (Orlando Weekly) It begins with a voice in the darkness. A woman’s voice, with a musical African accent. A voice that tells of the night the president was killed. The night their neighbor came to their door, the neighbor whose daughters she played with. The neighbor who brought the men with machetes to their door. [News Source]