The consequences stretch from one end of the food chain to the other, as higher food prices prompt a response.

ECONOMIST: No matter how bad things get, people still need to eat

He frequently adjusted his uniform, at times pitched from the stretch with no one on base and even once had to wave several times to get Romine's attention when he wanted a new baseball.

WSJ: Yankees' Pettitte struggles against Astros

Lander and his colleagues say evolution's lab book points to only 30, 000 genes--if a gene is defined as a stretch of DNA that codes for one of the proteins from which the body is built.

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Up in the north-east, the one-day (21km) leg-stretch from Bamburgh to Craster along Northumberland's undeveloped coastline links two castles (grand Bamburgh and artfully ruined Dunstanburgh), some of the country's wildest beaches and excellent smoked kippers.

BBC: Walking Great Britain��s great coast

During one 20-minute stretch alone, three semi trucks from FedEx Freight and a smaller truck from Advanced Logistics trundled around to the back of a distribution center owned by Quanta.

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Rival Kmart has extended Black Friday from a one-day event to a seven-week shopping stretch.

FORBES: Retailers Roll Out Gimmicks to Lure Holiday Shoppers

After averaging around 23, 000 per game from 2008 to 2010, a stretch that saw the Rays win two AL East titles and one American League pennant, attendance has plummeted this year to just over 16, 000 a game through the first 19 home dates.

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The plan is to have the link operational by 2017 with one train per hour from Reading to Oxford and Bedford, with the Oxford to Bedford stretch taking 60 minutes.

BBC: Rail link 'should extend to Cambridge'

Men are far more likely to own guns than women are, but the rate of gun ownership among men fell from one in two in 1980 to one in three in 2010, while, in that same stretch of time, the rate among women remained one in ten.

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