Reading List for July 5-9

Wheat Rust and World Farming (from The Economist)
The return of wheat rust: The disease eating away our daily bread
Rust in the bread basket: A crop-killing fungus is spreading out of Africa towards the world's great wheat-growing areas

The Debate about Soda Taxes
"Soda taxes: politics v. public health" - blog post by Marion Nestle (3 July 2010)
"Experiments in soda taxes and pay walls" - TIME blog post (2 July 2010) & related article (dated 12 July 2010)
"To Tax or Not to Tax? States Enter the Soda Wars" - NPR story (May 2010)
"Is Soda the New Tobacco?" - NYTimes article (12 Feb 2010)

Just for Fun
"Both @cookbook and @Maureen are the [Twitter] streams of Maureen Evans, a 27-year-old from British Columbia who is studying for a master’s in creative writing at Queen’s University Belfast," and she tweets entire recipes in 140 characters or less. (from NYTimes, 21 April 2009)