MATT ROURKE / Associated Press
Seeds were packaged at the Warminster, Pa., headquarters of Burpee, whose seed sales have doubled this year. |
Home gardens grow
Economic downturn results in more people buying seeds, planting veggies in yards
By Ellen Simon
ASSOCIATED PRESS
High prices at the pump and the produce aisle have sent home gardeners into their yards with a mission: Grow-it-yourself dining. Sales of vegetable seeds, tomato transplants and fruit trees are soaring as enterprising planters grow their own food.
Feds urge defense contractors to reduce appeals
Protests cost time, money, delay project completion
By Richard Lardner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Quit complaining. That's the message from the Pentagon and Congress to defense companies that cry foul when they don't win contracts. Resolving the protests costs the government time and money. That means it can take longer to build needed combat gear or buy critical supplies, making U.S. troops and American taxpayers the real losers.
Absence of riders hounds Megabus
Low-cost service leaving West Coast
By Penni Crabtree
STAFF WRITER
Megabus, a no-frills express bus service that debuted in San Diego last summer, has turned out to be a West Coast megabust. The Chicago-based company, which in August began offering service from San Diego to Los Angeles for as little as $1, said last week that it will discontinue all West Coast operations by June 22.
Marketing based on Web users' habits draws scrutiny
Federal review could reshape Internet ad rules
By Peter Whoriskey
THE WASHINGTON POST
How do you find a bride these days?
One of the nation's leading online tracking companies knows. Monitoring consumers at roughly 3,000 Web sites, Revenue Science identified brides by picking out behavior it saw: anyone who went online to read about weddings in the news, entered “bridesmaid dresses” into a search engine or surfed fashion pages for wedding styles.
