CANTON, Mass., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Dunkin' Donuts, the world's largest coffee and baked goods chain, is launching the new year on a chocolate note with the introduction of three new chocolate menu items to satisfy everyone's sweet tooth: a Milky Way(R) Hot Chocolate, an M&M's(R) Donut, and Dunkin's own Triple Chocolate Muffin.

Dunkin' Donuts has partnered with Mars, Inc. in creating two of these new treats featuring Mars' signature confections, Milky Way and M&M'S Chocolate Candies. Milky Way Hot Chocolate is a rich, smooth, hot beverage that blends chocolate, caramel and vanilla nougat flavors, just like the classic candy bar. Milky Way Hot Chocolate complements Dunkin' Donuts' line of freshly brewed hot beverages and is available in participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants nationwide.

In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan

Her parents wouldn't recognise the foods we put on the table, except maybe the butter, which is back. Today in America, as in much of the western world, the culture of food is changing more than once a generation, which is historically unprecedented - and dizzying.

What is driving such relentless change? One force is a multibillion-dollar food-marketing machine that thrives on change for its own sake. Another is the constantly shifting ground of nutrition science that, depending on your point of view, is advancing the frontiers of our knowledge about diet and health or just changing its mind a lot because it knows much less than it cares to admit. Part of what drove my grandparents' food culture from the dinner table was official scientific opinion, which, beginning in the 1960s, decided that animal fat was a deadly substance.

Finding ingenious design in nature

Joanna Aizenberg holds the skeleton of a deep-sea sponge made entirely out of a natural glass. The tube acts as a kind of high-rise apartment building for shrimp that live symbiotically in the sponges tissue. Staff photo Matt Craig/Harvard University .

MALEAH STRINGER: Sun room becoming 'cat room'

I think I'm very close to becoming one of those women I swore I'd never become. MALEAH STRINGER: Sun room becoming 'cat room' I think I'm very close to becoming one of those women I swore I'd never become. I used to have a sunroom in my home. Then I got the bright idea to make it the place my dogs stay when I'm not home. OK — that's not a bad thing. Well, now it's taken on a whole new look.

Councilman MikeK Recalls Knievel Action Figure

But when legitimate concerns are raised, they grill the questioner about college credentials or wag a scolding finger at them. And if the advocate persists, they can expect personal attacks, fabricated allegations and embellished investigations/Mary Souza, Coeur d'Alene Press. Full column here.

DFO: Mary was part of an attempt by the right wing of the local Republican Party to make inroads into the local City Council. She slammed Mayor Sandi Bloem, the council and urban renewal efforts week after week in her Coeur d'Alene Press column. She got the comeuppance, which I predicted before the City Council elections, when the council dumped her from the P&Z commission on Mayor Bloem's birthday, Nov. 20. Now, she readily assumes the mantle of martyr to the cause of open government. No circumspection going on here.