New maple tap developers foresee a sweet season

It's 2 inches tall, costs about 35 cents and looks like a tiny rocket ship. But it has big potential.

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2009 is sweet year for maple syrup producers

Accommodating weather and a boost in the number of maple trees tapped are being credited for a bumper 2009 maple syrup crop.

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Syrup's rising cost spurs Vermont gold rush

For years, Errol Tabacco was a maple sugar hobbyist. Each February, he'd tap about 100 trees on his property, haul buckets of sap to his garage and boil it into syrup for his family and friends.

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Man Gets 5-10 Years for Stealing Syrup

A man convicted of stealing maple syrup has been sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison.

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Transcript of an interview with Professor Michael Pollan about how we can help to reduce health care costs by eating less processed and more nutritional food.

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Good News Wednesday - Breaking Trail Report

My daughter, friend Chris from Ontario and I took the sleds and went to my camp in New York's Southern Tier. In another article I talked about Friday's ride in Allegany State Park.

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....Have you ever been left with the impression after a thorough poking, prodding and testicular cupping at the doctor's office that perhaps they don't always know what's best? The thought is usually pushed from your mind, after all these people had to go through years of school  …

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The trees won't be putting out anymore. "The thought of a Vermont without maple trees or a March without wood smoke wafting from sugar houses seems unthinkable. But that appears to be the direction we are headed in ..." the article reports.

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Think of things that can protect you against knives and bullets. Kevlar? Yes. Steel plates? Sure. Pancake syrup?! Probably not high on your list. Well, prison guards and other uniformed types may soon be armored with viscous stuff that would make Mrs. Butterworth proud.

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No need for a heaping plate of holiday food guilt Jon Robison Dec 25, 2006 3:00 AM

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Yet Another Dirty Little Secret

The world's businesses are driven by the profit question to such an extent that we regularly encounter dirty little secrets being kept from the general public. We saw this with a number of products ranging from tobacco to various additives and processes.

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Americans have a schizophrenic relationship with food. We love our food -- but we are scared to death of it. Over the decades, we have been warned constantly to protect ourselves from the dangers lurking in a wide variety of foods.

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BERLIN (AFP) - Some 20,000 liters of sticky sweet syrup spilled onto a German autobahn after a tank truck overturned, forcing the highway to be closed for several hours. ADVERTISEMENT

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