The News & Observer Rose expert David Austin helps return fragrance to mass-market roses | Don't call me a snob, but I don't want a dozen long-stemmed red roses for Valentine's Day. Flowers thrill me, but not the ubiquitous red roses. | How did the American public get fixated on the red r... (photo: WN / sweet) Market Mass Photos Rose Valentine The Examiner The crimson tide: I see red people, hearts, flowers | Do you have visions of Valentine’s Day dancing in your head? Is it giving you a migraine? | Valentine's Day originally started as the simple trading of love notes. Centuries later, the h... (photo: WN / sweet) People Photos Red Trading Valentine Top Stories Star Tribune Spain's Telefonica may charge Internet search engines like Google for network bandwidth | MADRID - Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use. | Speaking Monday at a pr... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba) Google Internet Photos Spain Technology Philadelphia Daily News GOP cool to Obama call for two-party health talks | CHARLES BABINGTON | The Associated Press | WASHINGTON - Republicans gave a chilly reception Monday to President Barack Obama's invitation to discuss health care in a bi... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci) Democrats Health Photos US Whitehouse Houston Chronicle Beverage industry douses tax on soft drinks | WASHINGTON - Employing a broad-based lobbying effort, the soft drink industry has smothered a plan to tax sugared beverages - a plan advocates said would have reduced o... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) Beverages Health Photos Softdrinks Taxes The News & Observer Birth planning leads to surprising increase in premature births | The rising trend of expectant mothers being involved in every aspect of planning their births has had an unintended consequence - a rise in pre-term deliveries. | "It n... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) Health Photos Science Society Women The Guardian CAPITAL CULTURE: First lady tackling child obesity | NANCY BENAC | Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — By now, it is abundantly clear that Michelle Obama loves french fries. | The first lady talks about this "gui... (photo: Creative Commons / Samantha Appleton) Culture Michelle Obesity Photos Tackling Houston Chronicle Farm to School program changes kids' views on food | SHARON, Vt. - The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritio... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Farm Food Kids Photos Vegetable
