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In a year when some NFL teams lost their top three quarterbacks, the 49ers never needed to call on their second-stringer, rookie Colin Kaepernick, for anything more than mop-up duty. Alex Smith led the league in sacks absorbed with 44, yet stayed healthy and played all 16 games for the first time since 2006.

I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling.

That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a- while "wow" event.

How do you feed 9 billion people without destroying the planet?

Transform the global food system in the next 40 years by using crops to feed people instead of fattening livestock and producing fuel; eliminate food waste; and overhaul the use of fertilizers like nitrogen that are polluting waters around the world.

SALT LAKE CITY - For the past 167 years, Mormon candidates for U.S. president have suffered a parade of spectacular failures -- often, but not always, related to public distrust of their religion.

WASHINGTON - As it prepares to pass a bill this week to punish China for undervaluing its currency, the U.S. Senate has passed a resolution expressing regret for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and later laws that banned most Chinese immigrants from the United States and denied them citizenship.

The Solyndra episode is a story with legs, as they say, and it's leading us into the realm of semi-socialist ambitions. It is walking toward new lessons in the old business of political hanky panky and reminding us that clean energy sanctimony has a cousin named dirty dealing.

For more than 100 years, ranchers have used hot-iron branding for livestock identification. But when it comes to tracing animal disease, a brand isn't sufficient.

In recent years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has sought to develop a program that, in the event of a disease outbreak, would help regulators pinpoint animals' location within 48 hours.

Minnesota and Wisconsin are contributing an increasing share of the Mississippi River pollution that is killing a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Texas agricultural researchers have released two new farmer-friendly computer tools to help battle the state's prolonged and brutal drought.

If you want proof that winning cures just about everything, look at the Texas Rangers' performance at the trade deadline.

Texas traded four prospects, or suspects in some cases, to solidify its shaky bullpen.

Brilliant is the consensus on the work of general manager Jon Daniels.