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We focus so much energy turning a house into a home, we sometimes forget to aim our decorating genius in another notable direction: the office cubicle. Home often expresses who we are, filled as it is with accumulated treasures and trinkets.

WASHINGTON - Wal-Mart is putting special labels on some store-brand products to help shoppers quickly spot healthier items.

WASHINGTON - Steps that retailers, restaurants and others are taking as part of Michelle Obama's campaign to reduce childhood obesity.

PHILADELPHIA - It sounds more like a restaurant order than a school lunch menu: baked ziti with a side of roasted fennel salad and, for dessert, cinnamon apple rice pudding.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27 Victoria Conservatory of Music presents Mozart @257, a thank-you-for-you-support concert, 7:30 p.m. at Alix Goolden Performance Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. Tickets at 250-386-5311 or at the door. Details at vcm.bc.

PARIS — The funny thing about being a food writer and cookbook author is that people think since I’m in the kitchen all day long, dinner must be a snap. Right. Thing is, I’m not always in the kitchen.

Edamame are young, sweet, green soybeans harvested while still tender. Sometimes you will see them referred to as Japanese soybeans because “eda” means branch or twig and “mame” is bean in Japanese.

CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y.

Stormwater runoff can quickly drain a homeowner's wallet. The flooding erodes yards, soaks basements, pollutes streams and wastes a precious resource.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Hyperbaric chambers have been used for decades to treat divers with the bends, burn victims and people with traumatic injuries, but in Florida and a handful of other states they're increasingly being used on ailing pets.