The James Logan Courier

By Sue Stock
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

RALEIGH, N.C. — Milk is $4 a gallon.

Cereal is $4 a box.

And an orange for your lunchbox can run $1.50 or more.

Food prices are rising faster than they have in 17 years, and there's no relief in sight. Economists had expected a 4 percent increase this year — we reached that in May.

By William Mullen
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Deep in the Petrified Forest formation on New Mexico's Ghost Ranch, a group of paleontologists have come across the fossil remains of a surprising creature whose existence could almost certainly will rewrite the books on how dinosaurs came to be.

The story as it is being rewritten is that the first dinosaurs on Earth were relatively pint-sized animals and spent 15 million to 20 million years low in the minor leagues of in life's pecking order before they became the world's dominant animal life form. That idea runs counter to the prevailing theory that after dinosaurs first evolved, their numbers and their relative size exploded, quickly making them the dominant animal life form on Earth.